Preston Tower (old)
Preston Tower (old), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034424
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Preston Tower (old)
- Statutory Address:
- Preston Tower (old), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1034424
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Preston Tower (old)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Preston Tower (old), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH
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:
- Preston Tower (old), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ellingham
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 18371 25432
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/07/2019
NU 12 NE
11/161
ELLINGHAM
CHATHILL
PRESTON
Preston Tower (old)
(Formerly listed as Preston Tower (old), ELLINGHAM)
22.12.69
GV
II*
Part of tower house. C14 restored 1864 by Henry Robert Baker Cresswell. Squared stone with Welsh slate roof. The remains include the south wall and two southern corner turrets of a larger hall-type tower house with four towers (cf. Haughton Castle and Langley Castle). The rear wall is of 1864.
Three storeys. Chamfered plinth. Recessed centre flanked by projecting turrets. In the centre a boarded door in C16, or C17 chamfered surround. Two slit windows with chamfered surrounds above door. Four similar windows in turret to left, three in turret to right. On second floor in centre, a large clock with ceramic face inscribed H R B C for the restorer. Embattled parapet. Higher turrets have rounded corbels below parapets. On left return a blocked, low, narrow C14 doorway with pointed arch and chamfered surround. To rear, similar clock face dated 1864.
Interior: springing of ground-floor vault visible. The turrets have pointed tunnel-vaulted chambers on each floor. Also in turrets three C16 or C17 fireplaces with chamfered surrounds; one has a lintel, with keystone. Many mason's marks. C14 doorways into turret rooms have pointed arches and chamfered surrounds.
Listing NGR: NU1837125432
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409582
- 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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