Tower at Hollywood Tower and Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1952. Tower. 1 related planning application.
Tower at Hollywood Tower and Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- haunted-attic-lake
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1952
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- Tower at Hollywood Tower and Boundary Wall, Hollywood Lane, Almondsbury, BS35 5RR
- OS grid reference
- ST 572 813
- Coordinates
- 51.52982, -2.61723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower at Hollywood Tower, built in the early to mid-19th century, is a three-stage clock tower featuring coursed rubble and stone dressings. It has a square plan and exhibits both Italianate and Early English architectural styles. The tower is supported by weathered angle buttresses and features a door with a pointed arch set in a chamfered stone surround, complete with a hood mould that has mask stops and displays the arms of Sir Stanley White.
Moulded string courses run along the structure, and at the first floor level, there is a lancet window with wooden louvres set in an eaved architrave. The clock is positioned in the upper level within a decorative stone surround, and beneath a coved cornice adorned with rosettes, there is a stone Lombard frieze topped by an embattled parapet. The sides of the tower include a two-light window with Y tracery in a stone surround, a slit window in an eaved architrave at ground level, a lancet window at the first floor, and two windows with trefoil heads at the second floor, the upper one featuring mask stops on its hood mould.
The rear of the tower has an angled stair turret with slit windows. At the top, there is an octagonal stone cupola with blind windows on each side, roundels in the spandrels, and blind cross slits. The low boundary wall is constructed in ashlar on a rubble plinth, featuring pierced trefoils and coping, with a shield set in a roundel on the piers at the corners and on each side of the entry. It is reputed that the tower was built as an observatory.
Local climate
Tower at Hollywood Tower and Boundary Wall 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 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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