North Tower House and Attached Perimeter Wall to the South is a Grade II* listed building in the Medway local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 August 1999. House.

North Tower House and Attached Perimeter Wall to the South

WRENN ID
patient-rood-primrose
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Medway
Constituency
Rochester and Strood MP: Lauren Edwards (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
13 August 1999
Type
House
Address
North Tower House and Attached Perimeter Wall to the South, College Road
OS grid reference
TQ 760 691
Coordinates
51.39446, 0.52967
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

North Tower House is a house built around 1718, with alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed of English bond brick and features late 19th-century brick lateral stacks and a slate pyramidal hipped roof. The house has a single-depth plan and stands three stories tall with a two-window range.

The street front displays battered buttresses and a row of shallow rectangular recesses at the ground floor, along with a plat band and a Lombard frieze on the second floor. There is a late 19th-century segmental-arched doorway on the right side, which has a half-glazed door with margin panes, and a low left-hand oculus. The first floor features two oculi, while the north front has been altered with late 19th-century tripartite sashes on the first floor and paired 6/1-pane sashes on the second floor. The west side includes a wide round-arched gateway at the ground floor with a glazed opening. There is also a single-storey late 19th-century yellow brick extension attached to the north, which has a 6/1-pane sash.

The interior has not been inspected. An attached brick perimeter wall extends from the southeast corner downhill for approximately 500 meters to the south, leading to the South Gate House. This wall has raised surrounds at the entrances to the gardens of the Officer's Terrace. Additionally, there is another length of coped brick wall attached to the southwest corner, extending about 20 meters to the south.

Historically, this structure is part of the eastern perimeter wall that includes the South Tower House and Gatehouse, built during the early 18th-century expansion of the Dockyard. The wall originally enclosed the yard and featured towers at the corners, each with pairs of oculi on the external faces and a crenellated parapet. The remaining sections of the wall highlight the need for protection of the Yard prior to the mid-18th-century construction of the Chatham Lines, marking the extent of the early 18th-century dockyard, which was one of the largest factory sites of its time in the world.

Local climate

North Tower House and Attached Perimeter Wall to the South 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 1996
  • No related consent applications matched
  • 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
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. The Stables Grade II 30 m
  2. Front and Perimeter Walls to Raised Gardens to Rear of Former Officers' Terrace Grade II* 85 m
  3. Former Officers Terrace and Attached Front Area Walls and Overthrows Grade I 109 m
  4. Joiners Shop Grade II* 115 m
  5. Timber Seasoning Store, South Grade II* 119 m
  6. The Brunel Saw Mill Grade I 139 m
  7. Number 1 Smithery Grade II* 139 m
  8. Clock Tower Building Grade II* 147 m
  9. Officers Block and Attached Front Basement Railings, Brompton Barracks Grade II* 150 m
  10. Chatham Dock Pumping Station South Grade II* 167 m