The Bourbon Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A C18 Tower.
The Bourbon Tower
- WRENN ID
- vast-newel-starling
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Buckingham and Bletchley MP: Callum Anderson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tower
- Address
- The Bourbon Tower, Stowe
- OS grid reference
- SP 683 379
- Coordinates
- 52.03591, -1.00525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bourbon Tower is a cylindrical tower made of ironstone, built around 1741, likely designed by architect James Gibbs. It features small round-arched windows and a machicolated parapet, topped with an octagonal turret that replaces the original conical roof. Originally known as the Keepers Lodge, it was altered and renamed to commemorate a visit by the exiled Louis XVIII in 1808. The ramparts surrounding the tower were dated to 1814.
Local climate
The Bourbon Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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