Bookers Tower Guildford is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 March 1988. A Victorian Tower. 1 related planning application.
Bookers Tower Guildford
- WRENN ID
- wild-threshold-wagtail
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Guildford MP: Zöe Franklin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 March 1988
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Bookers Tower Guildford, the Mount
- OS grid reference
- SU 991 488
- Coordinates
- 51.23013, -0.58146
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bookers Tower in Guildford is a tower built in 1839. It is constructed from Bargate stone blocks with ashlar and brick dressings and has an octagonal plan. The tower features three stages, with a corbel table at the base of the parapet and a stone string course above each stage. The lower stage has brick-edged, stone-coped buttresses that alternate with Gothic arched, brick-dressed panels. Above, there is irregular slit fenestration, and the upper stage has lancet fenestration. The site of Guildown Cemetery is known to be a Saxon burial ground. This tower was built for Charles Booker, who served as Mayor of Guildford three times.
Local climate
Bookers Tower Guildford receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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