Tower House at Warley Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Brentwood local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1994. Water tower, house. 18 related planning applications.
Tower House at Warley Hospital
- WRENN ID
- fossil-floor-evening
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Brentwood
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1994
- Type
- Water tower, house
- Address
- Tower House at Warley Hospital, Warley Hill
- OS grid reference
- TQ 590 921
- Coordinates
- 51.60609, 0.29532
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House at Warley Hospital is a water tower with an attached house, completed in 1885. It is constructed of red brick with a diaper pattern created by burnt headers, stone window and door dressings, and a tile roof. The building has a T-shaped plan. The tower, located at the western end and centrally positioned, is rectangular, four stories high, and features machicolations, a projecting parapet, and a conical roof. A doorway on the south side has a four-centred arched head and an independent stone hood over a boarded 19th-century door. The north and west faces of the tower have windows with similar arched heads, which are now boarded over. The first floor has deep, depressed arches with four-centered heads, containing mullioned and transomed windows, and paired lancet windows below. Above these arches, each face has a central slit vent on the two upper floors.
The attached house has a single-story and attic south elevation. A buttressed cross-wing extends eastward, featuring a crow-stepped gable. A ground-floor mullioned window of four lights is set under a molded four-centered arch. An attic gable window of two lights with a label molding is also present. To the west is a doorway with a four-centered arched head and a boarded door. A four-centered arched window is now boarded over. A wall with a parapet rises to the tower via crow-stepping. A dormer window is tile hung, and is also boarded over. The north elevation includes a 20th-century addition where the tower and house join. A centrally positioned dormer window is located behind the parapet, mirroring the one on the south elevation. A doorway and contiguous side windows, framed in square shapes, are now boarded over. A door has been cut into window framing. The eastern cross-wing is a 20th-century addition that matches the south gable's crow-stepping.
The east elevation of the cross-wing has a central, segment-headed doorway leading to a door of four panels: the upper two are glazed, and the lower two are flush with beaded edges. A small, adjacent, segment-headed window is boarded over. A central "dropped" dormer window has three casements with glazing bars, each subdivided into a 1x3 pane arrangement. A stone stack rises above, featuring an embattled upper section with recessed arched panels. On the north end of the range, there is 20th-century brickwork and iron-framed windows, two at ground floor level and one in the attic, all boarded over.
Tower House, along with Warley Hospital and The Lodge, form a group.
Local climate
Tower House at Warley Hospital sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 660 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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 — 2 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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