Stable Block to North West of Craster Tower

STABLE BLOCK TO NORTH WEST OF CRASTER TOWER

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041814
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Stable Block to North West of Craster Tower
Statutory Address:
STABLE BLOCK TO NORTH WEST OF CRASTER TOWER

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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1041814
Date first listed:
01-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Stable Block to North West of Craster Tower
Statutory Address 1:
STABLE BLOCK TO NORTH WEST OF CRASTER TOWER

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
STABLE BLOCK TO NORTH WEST OF CRASTER TOWER

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Craster
National Grid Reference:
NU 25077 19611

Details

NU 21 NE CRASTER CRASTER TOWER

6/43 Stable block to north-west of Craster Tower GV II

Stable block and attached wall. Late C18 incorporating earlier fabric. Front wall squared stone except for rubble in centre part; other elevations heavily- cemented rubble; cut sandstone dressings. Pantile roofs except for Welsh slates on north side of south range. L-plan.

Front (east) elevation 3 gabled bays. Left bay has pair of elliptical arches, the other bays single segmental arches, all holding boarded double doors. Quatrefoil panels in gables. To far left a short attached wall, with rebated segmental arch, joins garden wall (q.v.). Left return shows 2 boarded doors and stable door, in chamfered 4-centred surrounds, four 4-pane sashes, two 12- pane sashes and a 9-pane fixed window; 2 low slatted windows directly beneath eaves. Roof hipped to left.

Rear elevation; north and centre bays have hipped roofs; south range shows large raking buttress with blocked stone-surround doorway to left and boarded door with 6-pane overlight, under timber lintel, to right.

Listing NGR: NU2507719611

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
236934
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.

Ordnance survey map of Stable Block to North West of Craster Tower

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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