Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1976. A C19 House.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- errant-tracery-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Constituency
- Barrow and Furness MP: Michelle Scrogham (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Tower House, 14, Tower Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 232 648
- Coordinates
- 54.07409, -3.17503
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tower House is a former coastguard's house, now a private dwelling, built in the mid 19th century. It features cement render and scored stucco with ashlar sandstone dressings and has a graduated slate roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. It has a chamfered plinth and cement quoins on the right side.
The central feature includes a raised ashlar doorcase with pilasters, a frieze panel, and a cornice on consoles, which are mirrored in profile on each side. Above the doorcase is a sunken apron with a shell niche beneath an archivolt on consoles. The large three-light windows on the ground floor have quoined, ovolo-moulded surrounds that frame 20th-century casements, with the original stone mullions and transoms removed. The first floor has short three-light windows with matching surrounds but without cornices, and these are set in gabled half-dormers. The dormers and end gables are adorned with shaped kneelers and moulded gable copings. A large end stack is located on the left side of the building.
Local climate
Tower House sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,670 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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