Tower House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the North Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 January 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Tower House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- wild-quoin-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Somerset
- Constituency
- North Somerset MP: Sadik Al-Hassan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 January 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Tower House Farmhouse, Nailsea, BS48 4BZ
- OS grid reference
- ST 451 698
- Coordinates
- 51.4248, -2.78967
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House Farmhouse is a farmhouse with origins dating back to the 17th century, featuring later alterations and additions. It is constructed of rubble and rendered, topped with a double Roman tiled roof that has brick ridge and gable stacks. The main range has a parallel block at the rear and stands two storeys high with four windows. On the first floor, the left side has two 3-light casements, while the right side features two sashes in exposed boxes, positioned to the right of a ridge stack. There is a stair tower with a pitched roof on the right. The ground floor on the left includes a 3-light casement and a door. The left return has a blank gable end, while the gable end of the rear block has a 20th-century glazed porch with a half-glazed door and a 16-pane sash window above. Inside the porch, there is a door that may lead to a rear through passage. The right return has an attached block that is one and a half storeys tall, featuring two casements. At the rear, there is a 9-pane light on the first floor right, and the right gable end has raised coped verges. The interior is not accessible.
Local climate
Tower House Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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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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