The Towers is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. House. 1 related planning application.
The Towers
- WRENN ID
- veiled-tin-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Towers, Castle Road, Scarborough, YO11 1HZ
- OS grid reference
- TA 047 891
- Coordinates
- 54.28718, -0.39221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Towers is a building dating from around 1860, constructed for a local brewer. It features a castellated design with coursed rock-faced stone and stands two storeys high, with three-storey machicolated turrets at each end of the main block. The building has machicolated battlements and pointed casements that include drip moulds above them. Large central double doors are set beneath a moulded arch in the Norman style, flanked by buttress piers. There are single-storey wings designed in a similar style, and to the right, there is a conservatory topped with iron cresting. The overall appearance is picturesque.
Local climate
The Towers receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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