The Old Tower
THE OLD TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145499
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Tower
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD TOWER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145499
- Date first listed:
- 24-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD 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.
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:
- THE OLD TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hesket
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 47638 38391
Details
NY 43 NE HESKET BRACKENBURGH
10/149 The Old Tower
II
Fortified house. Late C14 or early C15 with 1852 alterations and additions by William Atkinson and further 1902-3 alterations by Sir Robert Lorimer for Joseph Harris. Extremely thick dressed red sandstone walls with C20 battlemented ashlar parapet and ashlar chimney stacks; C20 angle turret and cupola. Roof within parapets and hidden from view. Extensions of red sandstone ashlar under graduated greenslate roof with crow-stepped gable. 3-storey square tower with lower rear 2- and 3-storey, 3-bay extensions of 2 different builds, forming overall L-shape. Various 2- and 3-light C19 and C20 stone-mullioned windows under hoodmoulds. Left return wall has 2 small upper-floor windows, otherwise it is difficult to identify blocked windows obscured by ivy growth. Extensions have C20 doorway in re-entrant angle and similar 2- and 3-light windows to those in tower. Glazed organgery links with the main house, Brackenburgh (q.v.). Internal C19 and C20 alterations. Reputedly built as a house for the warden of Inglewood Forest but there are virtually no references to this building. See Christopher Hussey, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, 1931, pp.40-1.
Listing NGR: NY4763838391
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 73873
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hussey, C, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, (1931), 40-41
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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