Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1980. House, office. 1 related planning application.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- scattered-oriel-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1980
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- Tower House, 45, Commercial Road, BH14 0JA
- OS grid reference
- SZ 031 915
- Coordinates
- 50.72375, -1.95704
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a mid-19th century house that has been converted into an office. It features a stucco exterior with stucco stacks and a slate hipped roof. The building has a double-depth plan and is double-fronted, characterized by pilaster strips and a central bay that is set forward. A square crenellated tower projects through the ridge, adorned with lozenges above the cornice and round-arched windows. The entrance includes a distyle porch with bases and a cornice leading to a half-glazed six-panel door. The ground-floor windows have casements with margin bars and a small-paned window above the transoms, while the first-floor features outer eight-over-eight pane sashes and a central six-over-six pane sash. The interior has not been inspected. This house is an unusual example of Late Georgian architecture, notable for its central tower.
Local climate
Tower House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 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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- 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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