Tower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the King0s Lynn and West Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1988. Farmhouse. 9 related planning applications.
Tower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- hushed-pedestal-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- King0s Lynn and West Norfolk
- Constituency
- North West Norfolk MP: James Wild (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tower Farmhouse, Tower End, Middleton, King's Lynn and West Norfolk, PE32 1EE
- OS grid reference
- TF 668 173
- Coordinates
- 52.72798, 0.4687
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse, dated 178-, located in Middleton Tower End. It is constructed from coursed galletted carstone with brick dressings and features a pantile roof with a brick dentil cornice. The building has a range of five bays and is two storeys high with an attic on the south side. There is a continuous two-storey 19th-century extension to the north with raised gables.
The entrance facade is on the north side of the 19th-century addition, showcasing galletted carstone blocks. This facade has five bays over two storeys, with the ground floor featuring a three-light casement window with a segmental arch between the first and second bays. The third bay includes a wide canted bay window with a flat roof, while the fourth bay has a 19th-century part-glazed door with a coped canopy, barge boards, and a finial. There is a two-light casement window between the fourth and fifth bays. The first floor consists of five horizontally hung flush sash windows with glazing bars.
On the south facade, the ground floor has a sash window with glazing bars in the first bay, three-light casements in the third and fifth bays, and a doorway in the third bay with a late 19th-century part-glazed door and a rectangular light above. The first floor features three-light casements in the first, third, and fifth bays, with blank openings in the second and fourth bays. There is a roof dormer in the second bay and an axial stack in the fourth bay.
In front of the ground floor bays two to four, there is a curved canopy made of glass tiles supported by wrought iron posts, dating from the early 19th century. The east return has an iron marking "MC 17" and a casement window with glazing bars in the attic. The west return features an iron marking "MC 8-" on the gable, along with the remains of a rectangular opening on the first floor and an inserted window in the attic to the right.
Local climate
Tower Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 9 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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