Crawley Tower With Cottage Inside
CRAWLEY TOWER WITH COTTAGE INSIDE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057698
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crawley Tower With Cottage Inside
- Statutory Address:
- CRAWLEY TOWER WITH COTTAGE INSIDE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1057698
- Date first listed:
- 25-Aug-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Crawley Tower With Cottage Inside
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRAWLEY TOWER WITH COTTAGE INSIDE
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:
- CRAWLEY TOWER WITH COTTAGE INSIDE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hedgeley
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 06891 16514
Details
HEDGELEY CRAWLEY NU 01 NE 4/230 Crawley Tower, with cottage inside II*
Remains of towerhouse or tower solar. Early C14, with C18 cottage built inside when the ruins were altered to form an eyecatcher on the Shawdon Estate.
Massive squared stone; cottage rubble with Welsh slate roof. Rectangular plan, 15.2 x 11.2 metres externally; wall toothings indicate former structure to the north-east. L-plan cottage built against interior of south and west walls.
South elevation shows renewed door in C18 opening with small casement window in modified loop to left. lst-floor casement in blocked doorway opening of uncertain date, and 2 original windows at higher levels, each of 2 chamfered lancet lights, mullions now missing. Irregular stepped C18 parapet. West elevation shows remains of another early 2-light window above 2 later windows; C18 embattled parapet.
North elevation shows 2-storey pent-roofed cottage inside tower, with various casement and sash windows; above cottage roof, in south wall, is a segmental rear arch, with window seats, of upper 2-light window. Remaining parts of tower east and north walls have C18 crowstepped coping. Cottage has pent single-storey part on exterior of north tower wall, with adjacent outbuilding.
Interior of cottage not seen; tower walls 2.6 metres thick, except on north where there was probably a mural stair.
Licence to crenellate was granted in 1343, but the architectural features probably pre-date this. Substantial earth works to the north suggest that the tower formed part of a strongly-fortified complex.
Northumberland County History XIV 408-10.
Adjacent cottages are not of special interest.
Listing NGR: NU0689116514
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236575
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Northumberland, (1940), 408-410
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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