Tower to North West of Fulwood House
TOWER TO NORTH WEST OF FULWOOD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087489
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tower to North West of Fulwood House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER TO NORTH WEST OF FULWOOD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1087489
- Date first listed:
- 19-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Tower to North West of Fulwood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER TO NORTH WEST OF FULWOOD HOUSE
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:
- TOWER TO NORTH WEST OF FULWOOD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burgh By Sands
- National Grid Reference:
- NY3241959151
Details
NY 3259 BURGH BY SANDS Burgh by Sands
13/37
Tower to north-west
of Fulwood House
II
Probably watch tower. Late C18. English garden wall bond brickwork partly
rendered, roof hidden by battlemented parapet. Small, square 3-storey tower.
Open ground floor chamber has segmental arch with impost blocks and keystone.
External stone steps to side entrance at first floor level: similar plank door
on opposite side, has painted letters GHQ, thought to date from its use by the
Home Guard in World War II. First floor sash windows with glazing bars in
shallow segmental brick arches, on north and south faces. Diamond-paned iron
casements above. Ground floor interior has small square angle niches. Thought
to have been used by excise officers to watch for smugglers bringing contraband
through the Solway from the Isle of Man. See Transactions Cumberland &
Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, liii, pp216-7,
illustrating a similar tower at Drumburgh House. Derelict and unoccupied at time
of survey.
Listing NGR: NY3241959151
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 78222
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 53, (), 216-7
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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