Tower House is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1953. A Medieval House. 1 related planning application.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- proud-quartz-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1953
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Tower House, Alnham, NE66 1LT
- OS grid reference
- NT 990 109
- Coordinates
- 55.39282, -2.01694
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a house that dates back to the 14th century, first mentioned in 1405, with alterations made around 1840. It is constructed from dressed stone and ashlar, topped with a Welsh slate roof, and features an irregular shape with two storeys.
On the left side, there is a medieval tower, while a T-plan 19th-century house is attached to the right. The doorway is recessed under a pent roof located at the angle between the two sections. The tower includes 2- and 1-light 19th-century mullioned windows with floating cornices, and it is topped with 19th-century battlements and corner turrets.
To the right of the door, there is a projecting bay that features a similar 3-light window on the ground floor and a 2-light window above. The roofs are gabled with corniced ridge stacks.
Inside, the tower has a vaulted ground floor with walls that are 9 feet thick. Originally, it served as a 'vicar's pele' and was described as "long uninhabited and uninhabitable" in 1821, but it was back in use by 1844. It was later used as a youth hostel and is now a private house.
Local climate
Tower House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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