Peel Tower at OS SS 49123674
PEEL TOWER AT OS SS 49123674
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107114
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Peel Tower at OS SS 49123674
- Statutory Address:
- PEEL TOWER AT OS SS 49123674
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1107114
- Date first listed:
- 14-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Peel Tower at OS SS 49123674
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEEL TOWER AT OS SS 49123674
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:
- PEEL TOWER AT OS SS 49123674
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Braunton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS4911736733
Details
SS 4836-4936 BRAUNTON BRAUNTON
12/47 Peel Tower at O.S. SS49123674
-
- II
Peel Tower, built 1857 for Thomas Mortimer of Franklyn Cottage. Creeper-clad rubble
3-stage tower with first floor access to rear. Floors and roof collapsed. 3
square-headed openings with timber lintels on sides and rear of first stage, the
sill of rear opening lowered by loss of rubble. Front wall opening has also been
knocked out but semi-circular brick arch mostly survives. Square opening in top
stage rear wall with timber lintel. The inner bottom stage walls are splayed in the
corners. Originally "the lower basement part (was intended) for a greenhouse: the
apartment above a study: and at the top an observatory; between the second and third
compartment is a niche, intended for a statue of Sir R(obert) Peel", according to
Billings Directory (1857). Originally the tower was surmounted by a castellated
parapet and corner finials. (A small plaque in retaining wall near back door of
Franklins Cottage is inscribed "Disraeli's Refuge : Sneering, Jeering, Satirical
Ben/ most Specious of Sophists and Spiteful of men").
Listing NGR: SS4911736733
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 98289
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Billings Directory in Billings Directory, (1857)
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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