Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1976. Residential. 9 related planning applications.

Tower House

WRENN ID
under-zinc-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Milton Keynes
Constituency
Milton Keynes North MP: Chris Curtis (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1976
Type
Residential
Address
Tower House, 96, High Street, Stony Stratford, MK11 1AH
OS grid reference
SP 785 406
Coordinates
52.05835, -0.85532
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Tower House is an earlier house that was rebuilt in 1746 after a fire and underwent significant alterations in the late 18th century. It was refronted and heightened in the mid-19th century. The building is three stories tall, constructed of brick with a stone eaves cornice, quoins, and rustication around the doors on the left and the window heads. It features four windows and has a shallow pitched slate roof. The sash windows have incised keys in their heads, with two three-light windows on the first floor and an oriel bay on the left that has three lights and a dentil cornice. The main entrance is located under the third window from the left, featuring a wooden doorcase with thin pilasters and reeded brackets that support a moulded cornice. The north-east front is rounded on the first two floors.

At the rear, there are extensions that are partly brick and partly stone and tiled, creating a pleasant courtyard. To the left, there is a projecting coachhouse, with stables and a hay loft connecting to the rear extension of the house. Various windows, including some round-headed ones, are present on the brick stable and coachhouse blocks, with the latter featuring a hipped gable to the south-west. Inside, there is a fine late 18th-century circular staircase with a coved ceiling and gothick light.

Tower House is part of a group that includes Nos 62 to 86 (even), Nos 66A, 70A, and 86A, as well as Nos 88 to 106 (even) and the former St Anthony Franciscan preparatory school.

Local climate

Tower House 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 83% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% 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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