Gothic Tower North West of Hartwell House is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Tower.

Gothic Tower North West of Hartwell House

WRENN ID
old-cloister-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Buckinghamshire
Constituency
Mid Buckinghamshire MP: Greg Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 October 1951
Type
Tower
Address
Gothic Tower North West of Hartwell House, Stone with Bishopstone and Hartwell
OS grid reference
SP 794 125
Coordinates
51.80571, -0.8495
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Gothic tower, built around 1730 and attributed to James Gibbs, is located northwest of Hartwell House. It originally stood in the 'Wilderness' of the early 18th-century garden, alongside other structures that have since been removed, but it is recorded in the Nebot paintings at the County Museum. The tower is a low circular structure made of ashlar stone, featuring a moulded plinth, cornice, and a battlemented parapet that projects out on small moulded corbels. On the north side, there is a Gothic arched opening with a moulded arch and hoodmould, which is accessed by a flight of five curved and moulded stone steps. Opposite this, there is a small quatrefoil opening.

Local climate

Gothic Tower North West of Hartwell House receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% 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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