The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West of Barwick House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. Folly.
The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West of Barwick House
- WRENN ID
- under-doorway-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Yeovil MP: Adam Dance (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Folly
- OS grid reference
- ST 556 142
- Coordinates
- 50.92601, -2.63281
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Rose Tower is a folly located 440 metres west of Barwick House, built around 1775. It is constructed from local stone rubble with Ham stone ashlar. The structure features a circular podium that is approximately 4 metres in diameter and 0.6 metres high. On this podium stands a hollow circular drum, about 4 metres high, which is pierced with three pointed arches and has bands of rectangular openings spaced about 1.25 metres apart. The upper 2 metres of the drum is made of fine ashlar and topped with a ball finial, bringing the total height of the tower to approximately 20 metres. This tower serves as the west boundary marker of the Barwick Park estate and was likely erected by John Newman. It is the most impressive of the four follies aligned along the cardinal points through Barwick House and is featured in three paintings dated between 1770 and 1780.
Local climate
The Rose Tower, 440 Metres West of Barwick House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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