THE TOWER HOUSE AND ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AT ROWTON CASTLE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175699
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: THE TOWER HOUSE AND ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AT ROWTON CASTLE
Statutory Address:: THE TOWER HOUSE AND ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AT ROWTON CASTLE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175699
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1952
List Entry Name:: THE TOWER HOUSE AND ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AT ROWTON CASTLE
Statutory Address 1:: THE TOWER HOUSE AND ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AT ROWTON CASTLE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: THE TOWER HOUSE AND ADJOINING COURTYARD WALLS AT ROWTON CASTLE

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

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Alberbury with Cardeston
National Grid Reference:: SJ3786612739

Details

SJ 3612-3712 14/48 29.1.52

ALBERBURY WITH CARDESTON C.P. ROWTON The Tower House and adjoining courtyard walls at Rowton Castle

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Service block, now house. Dated 1828. Coursed Alberbury breccia rubble with red sandstone ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. 2 storeys with flanking 3-storey square towers; Tudor Gothic style. Central block with plinth and drip mould beneath eaves; towers with cornices, chamfered-coped battlemented parapets and integral brick stacks on inner faces with 3 octagonal shafts. 2-window centre; wooden cross-windows with chamfered reveals and returned hoodmoulds; central C20 glazed door with returned hoodmould; towers with first-floor 2-light wooden casements and ground-floor wooden cross-windows, both with chamfered reveals and returned hoodmoulds, and chamfered slit windows to second storey. Central first-floor shield with date. 2 attached walls to right linking service block to Rowton Castle (qv), the higher behind with chamfered coping, the lower in front with chamfered battlemented coping and segmental-headed doorway to left. Interior not inspected. The service block forms the north-east side of the service courtyard to the south-west of Rowton Castle (qv).

Listing NGR: SJ3786612739

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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.