TOWER APROXIMATELY 20 YARDS NORTH OF ILAM HALL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038115
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: TOWER APROXIMATELY 20 YARDS NORTH OF ILAM HALL
Statutory Address:: TOWER APROXIMATELY 20 YARDS NORTH OF ILAM HALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1038115
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 15-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: TOWER APROXIMATELY 20 YARDS NORTH OF ILAM HALL
Statutory Address 1:: TOWER APROXIMATELY 20 YARDS NORTH OF ILAM HALL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: TOWER APROXIMATELY 20 YARDS NORTH OF ILAM HALL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Ilam
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 13160 50711

Details

SK 15 SW ILAM C.P. ILAM PARK

8/122 (17/6) Tower approximately 20 yards North of Ilam 1.2.67. Hall. (Previously listed as "Small Tower near Hall")

G.V. II Tower, possible former dovecote, c1830. Probably built by James Trubshawe. Rough faced ashlar; hammer dressed ashlar plinth and steps. Octagonal plan. Flight of steps leading to ground floor door with Caernarvon arch head; lancet loops in every other face at mid-height; a roll moulded string marks the upper stage which consists of alternate square panels of a blank shield and a cruciform loop; crested eaves to an 8-sided dome of fishscale work capped by a ball finial. James Trubshawe built the probably contemporary Ilam Hall to the designs of John Shawe.

Listing NGR: SK1316050711

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 274480
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.