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

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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.

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  • 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
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