Tower in the Garden of No 74 (Tower House) is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Sussex local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1957. Tower.
Tower in the Garden of No 74 (Tower House)
- WRENN ID
- second-crypt-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Sussex
- Constituency
- Mid Sussex MP: Alison Bennett (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1957
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower in the Garden of No 74 (Tower House), High Street, Hurstpierpoint and Sayers Common
- OS grid reference
- TQ 281 163
- Coordinates
- 50.93253, -0.17714
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower in the garden of No 74, known as Tower House, is an ornamental circular structure from the early 19th century. It stands three storeys tall and is constructed of flints, featuring a brick string-course, a modillion eaves cornice, and a castellated parapet.
Local climate
Tower in the Garden of No 74 (Tower House) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- No related consent applications matched
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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