Tower, North of Eden School is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. Dovecote.
Tower, North of Eden School
- WRENN ID
- stark-cobalt-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Dovecote
- Address
- Tower, North of Eden School, Stanwix Rural
- OS grid reference
- NY 414 572
- Coordinates
- 54.90631, -2.91525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tower located north of Eden School is possibly a dovecote, built around 1835 for George Head Head, the original owner of the house now known as Eden School. The structure features walls made of a mix of red and yellow dressed sandstone and has an octagonal pointed roof covered with slate. It stands three storeys high and is octagonal in shape, which is quite late for a dovecote. Given the owner's fondness for tower follies, it is possible that this building was relocated from another site. Each of the four faces has a lancet opening on every storey, all with chamfered surrounds, while the entrance has a plain surround. There is a string course at each storey level, and the roof timbers are exposed with slates that are nearly gone. There are no notable internal features.
Local climate
Tower, North of Eden School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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