The Tower House is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 August 1984. Corner house.
The Tower House
- WRENN ID
- fallen-hall-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 August 1984
- Type
- Corner house
- Address
- The Tower House, Quaperlake Street, Bruton, South Somerset
- OS grid reference
- ST 683 349
- Coordinates
- 51.11279, -2.45329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Tower House is a corner house built in the 18th century and modified in the 20th century. It is constructed from local stone rubble and features a hipped Welsh slate roof with brick chimney stacks. The building has three storeys, with one bay facing Quaperlake Street and four bays on Coombe Street.
The ground floor has a modern hardwood door and small-pane shop windows at the front, above which is a 12-pane sash window in a plain surround. There are traces of earlier blocked windows on either side of this sash window. Above it, there is a 16-pane casement window with louvred shutters.
On the side elevation, there is a plain boarded door to the first bay, with 20th-century hardwood windows in the remaining lower bays. The first floor features two 16-pane sash windows followed by two 20-pane sash windows. The second floor has 12-pane sash windows in all bays except for the first. A wrought iron bracket and hanging sign are located over the main door, although the date of the sign is uncertain. The Tower House is situated on the site of the former Maypole Inn, and parts of the inn may be incorporated into the structure.
Local climate
The Tower House receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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