Tower Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Barnsley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1968. House.

Tower Cottage

WRENN ID
drifting-baluster-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Barnsley
Constituency
Penistone and Stocksbridge MP: Dr Marie Tidball (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 March 1968
Type
House
Address
Tower Cottage, New Road, Cawthorne
OS grid reference
SE 266 084
Coordinates
53.57209, -1.59868
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tower Cottage is a Gothic folly that has been converted into a house, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed squared stone with quoins and features a pyramidal Welsh slate roof on the tower. The building consists of a two-storey tower flanked by single-storey wings on either side. The central Gothic archway has an impost band and is filled with glazing. Each face of the tower displays a quatrefoil design. The wings are slightly set back, with the right wing featuring a cross-shaped slit window, while the left has small four-pane sash windows. There is a lower addition on the left, which is in keeping with the original design. The structure is topped with crenellated parapets that include ashlar bands.

Local climate

Tower Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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