Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 June 1967. Cottage.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- muted-cellar-ivory
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 June 1967
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Tower House, Rye Road, Sandhurst
- OS grid reference
- TQ 798 283
- Coordinates
- 51.0267, 0.56363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a cottage dating from the 18th century. The ground floor is constructed of painted brick, while the first floor is weatherboarded. It features a tiled roof that is half-hipped to the left, with an external chimneystack on the left side and a ridge stack on the right. The building has two storeys and includes two windows fitted with 20th-century casements. The entrance has a doorcase with a flat wooden hood supported by brackets, leading to a four-fielded panelled door.
Local climate
Tower House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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