Tower Gates is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Lodge. 5 related planning applications.
Tower Gates
- WRENN ID
- far-tower-claret
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Tower Gates, 1, Benellen Avenue, BH4 9LU
- OS grid reference
- SZ 074 918
- Coordinates
- 50.72615, -1.89616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a single-storey stone lodge, built around 1890 in a free Tudor style. The exterior is rock-faced stone with smooth dressings. It has a greenish slate roof with decorative roof tiles. A shallow, four-centred former entrance arch, now glazed, is topped by a battlemented parapet. A canted bay window with an ogee roof is set against the gable adjacent to the arch. To the west and north, there are stone gables, battlements, and canted bay windows with white-painted timber frames. The lodge features a central chimney with a moulded cornice. The building contributes group value to the surrounding area.
Local climate
Tower Gates receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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