Visitors can climb the 111-step spiral staircase to the top of the 86-foot (26 m) tower for a 360 degree view of the beach and countryside.

The tower also features a private art gallery on six floors with changing exhibits several times a year, and a tea room.

[2] The present Naze Tower therefore replaced an earlier construction at a similar location.

Both the current Naze Tower and its predecessor had beacons or lamps lit at the top, providing an early form of lighthouse.

In the eighteenth century it was a tea house, operated by the actress and aristocrats' mistress, Martha Reay.