Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Oxford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 June 1972. House. 2 related planning applications.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- steep-solder-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oxford
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 June 1972
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower House, 45, Queen Street, OX1 1ET
- OS grid reference
- SP 513 061
- Coordinates
- 51.75193, -1.25822
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House, located at 45 Queen Street, was built in 1896 by H T Hare. This three-storey building is constructed of ashlar and features leaded lattice windows. The front has a modern shop-front, and it is topped with a conical slate roof.
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 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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
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