The Tower House and Adjoining Courtyard Walls at Rowton Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Shropshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 January 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
The Tower House and Adjoining Courtyard Walls at Rowton Castle
- WRENN ID
- tilted-latch-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Shropshire
- Constituency
- Shrewsbury MP: Julia Buckley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 January 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Tower House and Adjoining Courtyard Walls at Rowton Castle, SY5 9EP
- OS grid reference
- SJ 378 127
- Coordinates
- 52.70875, -2.92109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a service block, now used as a house, dating from 1828. It is constructed from coursed Alberbury breccia rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings, and has a plain tile roof. The building is in a Tudor Gothic style and comprises a central block flanked by three-story square towers.
The central block has a plinth and a drip mould beneath the eaves. The towers have cornices, chamfered-coped battlemented parapets, and integral brick stacks set within the inner faces, with three octagonal shafts. The central section has a two-window front, featuring wooden cross-windows with chamfered reveals and returned hoodmoulds, and a 20th-century glazed door also with a returned hoodmould. The towers have a first-floor two-light wooden casement, ground-floor wooden cross-windows, and a second-storey chamfered slit window – all with chamfered reveals and returned hoodmoulds. A central first-floor shield displays a date.
Two attached walls connect the service block to Rowton Castle. The wall to the right is higher and located behind, with chamfered coping. The lower wall in front features chamfered battlemented coping and a segmental-headed doorway to the left. The interior has not been inspected. The service block forms the north-east side of the service courtyard located to the south-west of Rowton Castle.
Local climate
The Tower House and Adjoining Courtyard Walls at Rowton Castle receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 35 transactions since 1996
- 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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