Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Former village schoolroom and master's house. 2 related planning applications.

Tower House

WRENN ID
noble-landing-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
Former village schoolroom and master's house
Address
Tower House, Lartington Lane, DL12 9BP
OS grid reference
NZ 019 177
Coordinates
54.55498, -1.9721
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tower House is a former village schoolroom and master's house, dating from the mid-19th century. It is likely to incorporate an earlier structure. The building is constructed of squared sandstone rubble, with stone-flagged roofs and stone chimney stacks.

To the left is a one-storey, four-bay former schoolroom. A replacement door has been inserted to the left, and there are two pointed-arched windows with hoodmoulds and replaced casements in bays two and three. A partly-blocked former doorway, also with a square hoodmould and inserted window, is located to the right. The roof has a coped left gable with shaped kneelers, and a rendered ridge stack.

The two-storey, three-bay master's house is situated to the right and features a taller clock tower on its return. The main block displays alternating quoins and a first-floor band. A replacement door is on the left, and altered openings contain replaced casements. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers, and the left end has a truncated stack. The square clock tower has a band at eaves level, a leaded gabled roof with overhanging eaves, a small stack to the left, and a square louvred lantern with a pyramidal roof and a weather vane. On the return of the tower, there is a 12-pane sash window within a projecting surround, two round windows with radial glazing and a large circular clock face above the band, and pierced, wavy bargeboards to the verge of the roof.

Tower House is a prominent feature within the village.

Local climate

Tower House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2000
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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