The Tower House is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. A Georgian House.
The Tower House
- WRENN ID
- other-chimney-amber
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 April 1987
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- The Tower House, Mitford Hall Drive
- OS grid reference
- NZ 164 854
- Coordinates
- 55.16345, -1.7426
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower House is the east wing and conservatory of a country house built around 1820 for the Mitford family by architect John Dobson. It was separated from the main house after the demolition of the northeast wing in the 20th century. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, with squared tooled stone at the rear, and features a Welsh slate roof on the wing and a glass roof on the conservatory.
The south elevation of the wing is divided into two sections. The left section is two stories high and has three bays, with a plinth and an eaves cornice. There are no windows on the ground floor, while the first floor has 20-pane sash windows, except for the leftmost window which is blocked, as this bay serves as a screen wall due to the demolition. The left section has a hipped roof. The right bay is a three-story tower, featuring a plinth, a second-floor string course, and an eaves cornice. It has a blocked door framed by an architrave, with a 24-pane sash window above it and a 20-pane sash window on the second floor. The tower is topped with a pyramidal roof and has a rendered lateral stack on the left side.
The conservatory is set forward to the right and consists of seven bays, with a plinth and Tuscan pilasters between the bays and at the corners. The glazing has been renewed, and it has a hipped roof. The left return of the conservatory has five bays and features a central half-glazed door.
Local climate
The Tower House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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