Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Tenement flats. 3 related planning applications.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- dim-latch-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Tenement flats
- Address
- Tower House, Candover Street W1, City of Westminster, W1W 7DQ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 291 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51938, -0.13947
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a tenement flat building constructed around 1903, likely designed by H. Fuller Clark. It features a combination of red and purple brick, glazed brick, and Portland stone dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building showcases a Free Style Arts and Crafts design with some elements reminiscent of "Wrenaissance" architecture. It stands five storeys tall, with a basement and a dormered mansard roof, and is three windows wide. The central entrance is hooded and arched, with a small tent-roof oriel above it and a low swept parapet tower. On either side of the entrance, there are three-storey oriels with shaped parapets, and the upper floors have casement lights with glazing bar exposed from sashes. The building is topped with a swept parapet. For further context, it is related to Nos 59 and 61 Riding House Street, W1.
Local climate
Tower House 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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