The Octagon Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. Tower.
The Octagon Tower
- WRENN ID
- fallow-beam-tide
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Octagon Tower, Lindrick with Studley Royal and Fountains
- OS grid reference
- SE 280 689
- Coordinates
- 54.11592, -1.57218
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Octagon Tower is a tower built between 1728 and 1732 by Robert Doe for John Aislabie. It was altered after 1742 for William Aislabie and restored around 1970. Originally designed as a classical garden ornament, it was later modified in a Gothic style. The tower is octagonal and consists of three stages, featuring a deep plinth at the first stage and an entrance on the east side at the second stage. The entrance has a six-panel double door set in a Gothick-style porch with buttresses that contain arched niches. This entrance is accessed by eight steps, which are flanked by outward curving walls topped with pointed coping and end piers that have ball finials. The raised ground floor has round-arched sash windows with restored glazing bars, and above them are roll mouldings and pointed-arched recesses. The third stage features pointed quatrefoil openings at the parapet, which are topped with crocketed finials. The tower is part of a group that includes the Tunnel and Mr Aislabie's Kitchen. It is also designated as a Scheduled Ancient Monument.
Local climate
The Octagon Tower receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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