Prospect Tower and Attached Wing
PROSPECT TOWER AND ATTACHED WING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037810
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect Tower and Attached Wing
- Statutory Address:
- PROSPECT TOWER AND ATTACHED WING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1037810
- Date first listed:
- 20-Nov-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Prospect Tower and Attached Wing
- Statutory Address 1:
- PROSPECT TOWER AND ATTACHED WING
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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:
- PROSPECT TOWER AND ATTACHED WING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddulph
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89677 55341
Details
BIDDULPH C.P. KNYPERSLEY SJ 85 NE SJ 896 553 7/33 Prospect Tower and - attached wing
- II*
Prospect tower. Dated 1828. Coursed stone, rock-faced quoins; flat roof invisible behind parapet. Large chimney adds drama to skyline, formerly 3 diagonally-set shafts, 2 still survive. Octagonal tower with screen wall to side wing. Tower: of 3 stages on battered plinth; first stage defined by string; machicolated parapet formerly crenellated. Round-arch mullioned 2-light windows in labelled chamfered, deep reveals, to first and second stages, similar single light to top stage; labelled datestone on the north-east face of the top stage. Entrance to east side. Plinth extended to south to take short single-storey link to attached wing formerly with corbelled parapet. Three labelled 1- and 2-light windows similar to remainder. John Bateman, the horticulturist, started his landscaping ambitions at his Father's house, Knypersley Hall before moving on to Biddulph Grange (q.v.), completed in the 1860's. The Tower, therefore, probably marks the debut period of his work, and clearly owes a debt to Clytha Castle (Gwent); what is there idyllic is here transformed into a rugged picturesqueness, more in keeping with developments later in the C19.
Listing NGR: SJ8967755341
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275239
- 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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