The Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 October 1951. House. 6 related planning applications.
The Tower House
- WRENN ID
- iron-gargoyle-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Tower House, West Street, Rye, TN31 7ES
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 203
- Coordinates
- 50.9502, 0.73275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower House is a house with a late 17th or early 18th century front, possibly built upon an earlier structure. It is two storeys high with an attic, and has six windows. The house is situated on a bend in West Street, with three windows on either side, suggesting it may originally have consisted of two separate houses. It has a parapet and three dormers. Large, three-light windows with a curved top to the lower sashes are present on the ground floor of the north wing. The remaining windows are standard sash windows. A particularly fine 17th century doorway is a prominent feature, with a fluted frame, a carved panel above the door, and a large curved hood supported by carved brackets. The doorway has an 18th century six-panel moulded door. A modern addition exists on the north side. The Tower House is part of a group which includes Nos. 1 and 2 Norman House, Lamb House, Nos. 13 to 17 (consecutive) and No. 1 Mermaid Street.
Local climate
The Tower House 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 6 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
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.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings