Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1955. Drying house. 1 related planning application.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- strange-entrance-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1955
- Type
- Drying house
- Address
- Tower House, Kemps Lane, Painswick, GL6 6YB
- OS grid reference
- SO 868 095
- Coordinates
- 51.78487, -2.19237
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House, formerly known as Round House (The Tower Cottage), is a former wool drying house dating from the early 19th century or earlier. It is constructed of squared dressed limestone and features a stone slate roof. The building has a cylindrical shape topped with a conical roof and stone capping.
On the side facing the house, which is not of special interest, there is a pointed arch doorway with a plank door beneath squat paired pointed lights. To the left and right of the door, there are similar small pointed openings, and at eaves level above these openings, there are additional similar openings fitted with wood ventilating louvres. The roof structure was added in the 20th century. Tower House is a good example of a type of structure that was once more common in the area.
Local climate
Tower House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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