The Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Towers
- WRENN ID
- quartered-garret-nettle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds West and Pudsey MP: Rachel Reeves (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Towers, 21, 23 and 25, Hill Top Road, LS12 3SQ
- OS grid reference
- SE 260 337
- Coordinates
- 53.79956, -1.60563
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A row of three houses, known as The Towers, was built in the late 19th century. The houses are constructed of coursed, rock-faced gritstone with slate roofs. Each house is two storeys high with basements and attics, and has three bays with a central entrance within a projecting bay.
No. 21, on the right, features a panelled front door with etched glass and an overlight, sheltered by a hood. The ground floor has three-light bay windows, while the first floor has two-light mullioned windows. Above the entrance is a sash window in an architrave, and there is a round-arched window in a tower. The tower is topped with a steeply pitched fish-scale slate roof and an ornate cast-iron finial. Corniced end stacks are also present.
Nos. 23 and 25 are similar in design. They both have panelled doors with hood mouldings supported by console brackets, and three-light bay windows, one of which is a canted bay. The first floor features an oriel window in the centre, and the attic has a round-arched window set within an ornate ogee gable topped with an urn finial. A large, tapering tower has slate-hung walls and round-arched windows, with elaborate cast-iron railings forming the cresting. A balustraded eaves parapet and terrace walls, including lions, complete the external features. The interiors have not been inspected.
Local climate
The Towers receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings