Charter Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Dacorum local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1948. Manor house remains.
Charter Tower
- WRENN ID
- unlit-pinnacle-heath
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dacorum
- Constituency
- Hemel Hempstead MP: David Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1948
- Type
- Manor house remains
- Address
- Charter Tower, Queensway
- OS grid reference
- TL 054 077
- Coordinates
- 51.75821, -0.47315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Charter Tower is a 16th-century structure that is a remnant of the former Manor House of Sir Richard Combe. It is built from ashlar and consists of two storeys, featuring a porch on the ground floor. The building has a square plan and showcases two superimposed orders with attached columns, with Doric columns on the ground floor. Below the first-floor window, there is a panel carved with the arms of Sir Richard Combe, although it is much worn and almost obliterated. Sir Richard Combe was the owner and builder of the house, which was constructed between 1557 and 1595 on the site of an earlier house. Until recently, the tower was covered in ivy. Charter Tower, along with the Manor House Garden Walls, forms a group of historical significance.
Local climate
Charter Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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