The Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 June 1983. Villa. 5 related planning applications.
The Towers
- WRENN ID
- lost-beam-storm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 June 1983
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- The Towers, High Street, Buckden, PE19 5TA
- OS grid reference
- TL 192 677
- Coordinates
- 52.29478, -0.25285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Towers is a villa built in 1872 for Colonel Sir Robert Edis. It is constructed of red brick with limestone dressings. The villa is two and three storeys high, with three projecting gabled ranges and flanking wings. It has slate roofs with pierced ridge tiles, side stacks, and internal stacks with octagonal shafts. Features include a stone capped plinth, cornice, and bands connecting window sills. The windows are hung sashes with relieving arches above stone mullioned and transomed lights. A three-stage tower provides the entrance, topped with a pyramidal slate roof and iron finial. The building has an embattled parapet, a moulded stone cornice, and a dated plaque in the west wall above a cinquefoiled window. The doorway, made of Ketton stone, has a deeply moulded, four-centred arch with a moulded abacus and shafted jambs. A shield is positioned above the door, bearing the inscription 'Salve' and supported by winged dogs. The interior retains original 19th-century details. The villa is described in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England on page 215.
Local climate
The Towers sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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 — 3 transactions since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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