GAMEKEEPER'S TOWER

GAMEKEEPER'S TOWER, HOBSON'S LANE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1071866
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: GAMEKEEPER'S TOWER
Statutory Address:: GAMEKEEPER'S TOWER, HOBSON'S LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1071866
Date first listed:: 07-Nov-1983
List Entry Name:: GAMEKEEPER'S TOWER
Statutory Address 1:: GAMEKEEPER'S TOWER, HOBSON'S LANE

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GAMEKEEPER'S TOWER, HOBSON'S LANE

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

County:: Lancashire
District:: Lancaster (District Authority)
Parish:: Over Kellet
National Grid Reference:: SD 54109 71350

Details

SD 57 SW OVER KELLET HOBSON'S LANE (off)

4/136 Gamekeeper's Tower II

Probably a shooting lodge, early C19th. Sandstone rubble. Square plan with projecting turret at west end of north wall. 3 storeys. Windows have plain reveals and 2-centred heads. East wall has windows on ground and 2nd floors. South wall has windows on ground and 1st floors. West wall has window on 2nd floor. East wall of turret has a narrow light with pointed head on the 1st and 2nd floor, with a similar opening in the north side on the ground floor. Tower has battlemented parapet. Against the west wall is a single-storey lean-to, now without a roof, with a window in its south wall with pointed head and plain reveals and a similar door in its north wall, now repaired with a concrete lintel.

Listing NGR: SD5410971350

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 181903
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.