Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Charnwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1984. House. 10 related planning applications.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- keen-cinder-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Charnwood
- Constituency
- Mid Leicestershire MP: Mr Peter Bedford (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower House, 4, School Street, Rothley, LE7 7RA
- OS grid reference
- SK 586 127
- Coordinates
- 52.70882, -1.13404
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a house dated 1779, located on the north side of School Street in Rothley. It is constructed of red brick with a hipped Swithland slate roof that slopes to the left, featuring brick end stacks. The building has two storeys and is adorned with two 8/8 sash windows that have gauged brick lintels. The central entrance consists of a 6-panelled door with glazed upper lights, an overlight, and a slated canopy. To the left, there is a 1-light window in an extension beneath the hipped section of the roof. Above the door, there is a slate tablet inscribed with the date '1779'.
Local climate
Tower House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 10 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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