Font at Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1987. Font. 1 related planning application.
Font at Tower House
- WRENN ID
- woven-marble-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Constituency
- Great Yarmouth MP: Rupert Lowe (RB)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1987
- Type
- Font
- Address
- Font at Tower House, Tower Road, Repps with Bastwick, Great Yarmouth, NR29 5JN
- OS grid reference
- TG 426 181
- Coordinates
- 52.70627, 1.59043
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The font at Tower House is a composite structure built from fragments believed to originate from St. Peter’s Chapel, dating from the 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of ashlar. The font has a square, cross-shaped base, which is chamfered to create an octagonal shape, with stop-angles supporting the pier base. The pier base is hexagonal and features a frieze of two encircled quatrefoils on each facet. This supports a plain octagonal font bowl. Tower House itself is not listed.
Local climate
Font at Tower House receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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 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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- 1 Cross Base at Tower House
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- 3 Font Against Blocked West Door of Church of St Peter and St Clare
- 4 Former Font of 1 Metre North of Nave of St Peters Church, Half Way Between North Porch and Chancel
- 5 Former Font Approximately 0.5 Metres West of Tower of Church of All Saints
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