Tempest Tower Farmhouse and Folly Tower
FOLLY TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031807
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tempest Tower Farmhouse and Folly Tower
- Statutory Address:
- FOLLY TOWER
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- Date:
- 2002-06-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/07820/10
- Rights:
- © Mr James Sinclair. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031807
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tempest Tower Farmhouse and Folly Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOLLY TOWER
- Statutory Address 2:
- TEMPEST TOWER FARMHOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FOLLY TOWER
- Statutory Address:
- TEMPEST TOWER FARMHOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Orton
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 34874 55233
Details
NY 35 NW
5/180
ORTON
Little Orton
Tempest Tower Farmhouse and Folly Tower
II
Farmhouse and Folly tower. Mid C19 house with tower dated 1875 and inscription TEMPEST TOWER, ..... RUTH SIBSON, further weathered inscription panel to rear. House of Flemish bond brickwork with pale stretchers; rusticated stone quoins. Welsh slate roof, yellow brick chimney stacks. Tower of red and calciferous mixed sandstone ashlar, brick to rear and cement rendered sides; roof hidden by battlemented parapet. 2-storey, 3-bay house with set-back extension to right of 2 storeys, 2 bays; 4-storey tower. 4-panel door with radial fanlight in round-headed brick arch with Ionic columns in antis. 2-pane sash windows with flat brick arches and stone sills. Extension has one C20 window; other sash windows with glazing bars. Tower has large round entrance to farmyard with Ionic columns in antis. Round-headed narrow windows on each floor, smaller flanking stair windows. Adjoining outbuildings are of no interest.
Listing NGR: NY3487455233
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78367
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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