Boyle Tower and garden entrance, Home of Compassion is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 2014. A C18 Tower, entrance.
Boyle Tower and garden entrance, Home of Compassion
- WRENN ID
- lunar-string-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 July 2014
- Type
- Tower, entrance
- OS grid reference
- TQ 161 672
- Coordinates
- 51.39261, -0.33154
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boyle Tower and garden entrance, located at the Home of Compassion, date from the late 18th century and the tower is likely from the early 19th century.
The tower is built of stock brick in Flemish bond, topped with 20th-century pantiles on the gables. The garden entrance and a section of the wall are primarily made of red brick. The tower is three storeys high and square in shape, with one room on each level accessed by a ladder, and it has an adjoining garden entrance to the north.
The exterior features a two-storey tower with gable ends that have kneelers on the north and south sides, and an oculus on the north side facing the river. This side also includes a low external chimneystack. The east elevation, which serves as the entrance, has a brick stringcourse and a flat-arched entrance. The garden entrance features a west-facing wooden architrave beneath an elliptical arch, with a plank door. This entrance is set in a section of brick wall that adjoins the tower to the north. It leads into a round-headed brick tunnel with a gabled roof, which ends in a round-headed arch supported by brick corbels at the eastern end.
Inside the tower, there are remnants of a brick fireplace and wooden shelving on the ground floor, with ladder access to the upper levels.
Local climate
Boyle Tower and garden entrance, Home of Compassion sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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