6-8, Tower Street is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 July 1991. Terrace.

6-8, Tower Street

WRENN ID
deep-bonework-spindle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rother
Constituency
Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
11 July 1991
Type
Terrace
Address
6-8, Tower Street, Rye
OS grid reference
TQ 921 205
Coordinates
50.9527, 0.73482
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

6-8 Tower Street is part of a terrace built around 1800, featuring a 14th-century side wall to number 1, which is adjacent to the Landgate. The retaining wall is made of stone rubble and has blocked trefoil windows above the first floor, along with a round-headed blocked opening with a keystone below it and an ogee arched opening at the plinth. The first floor includes two 20th-century stone mullioned windows. The front of the building is constructed from Flemish brick, topped with a stone parapet that ramps up to the left, and has an old tiled roof with two brick chimneys. The structure is two storeys high and has five windows. Most windows are early 19th-century 12-pane cambered sashes, although number 4 features a 20th-century aluminium front opening casement. The ground floor has a 12-pane sash window for numbers 3 and 5, while numbers 1 and 4 have 20th-century 8-pane shopfronts. Number 2 has a 20th-century replacement sash. Numbers 2 and 3 have paired door cases with cornices and pilasters, with number 3 featuring four flush panels. Number 5 boasts an elaborate doorcase with swags on the frieze and oval paterae, and it retains an iron footscraper. It has a six-panelled door and four steps leading to the street.

Local climate

6-8, Tower Street sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% 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.

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