The Towers is a Grade II listed building in the Havant local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 May 1976. House.
The Towers
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-terrace-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Havant
- Constituency
- Havant MP: Alan Mak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Towers, Portsdown Hill Road, PO9 3JY
- OS grid reference
- SU 693 064
- Coordinates
- 50.85333, -1.0159
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Towers is a house designed in the style of a Tudor castle, built in the early 19th century. It features a main block that is two storeys high with a semi-basement, comprising three windows on the front, with an east side extension that has three additional windows. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and has a crenellated parapet with stone copings. There is a brick dentil band above two shallow half-octagon two-storeyed bays, which have pointed arches and stone cills. The ground floor has stucco features, including hood moulds and heavily cusped windows. A half-octagon stucco porch with brick dentil eaves has a small coupled round-headed light on the side and an arched opening with a quoin surround. The windows include Gothic sashes in reveals, some of which are original, along with some Victorian sashes and ground floor casements. At the west end, there is a three-storeyed tower with a crenellated top, and at the rear, a central round tower features a crenellated and machicolated parapet.
Local climate
The Towers receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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