The Tower and Beeches
THE TOWER AND BEECHES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041400
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Tower and Beeches
- Statutory Address:
- THE TOWER AND BEECHES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041400
- Date first listed:
- 18-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Tower and Beeches
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TOWER AND BEECHES, CHURCH LANE
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:
- THE TOWER AND BEECHES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- West Bedlington
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 26060 81627
Details
BEDLINGTON CHURCH LANE NZ 2681 NW (East side) Bedlington
9/63 The Tower and The Beeches
II
House, now 2 dwellings. Late C18, extended and altered 1910. Coursed rubble with tooled or tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings; green slate roof except for blue slates on 1910 south extension. Front elevation 2 + 3 storeys, 4 bays, in 2 sections. Left part set forward; left bay has 2-storey bay window with paired sash windows; 12-pane upper leaf, plate-glass lower; to right porch with renewed door, plain overlight and battlemented parapet, with 8-pane sash above. Hipped roof with corniced ridge stack. On right 3-storey tower with early C20 bronze sundial in moulded stone surround below 2nd floor 12-pane sash in alternating-block surround. Corbelled-out battlemented parapet carrying small corniced stack on right. Right return of tower shows 12-pane sash at 1st floor level. Recessed right part shows two 8-pane sashes to 1st floor of left bay; right bay is 1910 extension with altered windows. Roof hipped to right with 2 ridge stacks, the left rendered, the right stepped-and-corniced.
2-bay left return shows 12-pane sashes in alternating-block surrounds. Rear elevation with 1910 canted bay.
Interior: open-well stair in tower, with stick balusters and steeply-ramped moulded handrail.
Formerly known as Tower Cottage; at one time a school. The tower is said to have been constructed as an atronomical observatory by a C18 curate.
C20 extension on south is not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NZ2606081627
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 235934
- 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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