Ford Castle Game Tower With Attached Garden Walls and Carriage Arch
FORD CASTLE GAME TOWER WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND CARRIAGE ARCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154099
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Castle Game Tower With Attached Garden Walls and Carriage Arch
- Statutory Address:
- FORD CASTLE GAME TOWER WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND CARRIAGE ARCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154099
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ford Castle Game Tower With Attached Garden Walls and Carriage Arch
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORD CASTLE GAME TOWER WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND CARRIAGE ARCH
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:
- FORD CASTLE GAME TOWER WITH ATTACHED GARDEN WALLS AND CARRIAGE ARCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ford
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 94454 37568
Details
FORD FORD CASTLE NT 9437 17/92 Game Tower with attached garden walls and carriage arch II
Game larder. Mid-late C19 for the Marchioness of Waterford. Ashlar with stone slate roof. Tower round, 2 storeys. Boarded door with 2-centred arch under dripmould. 2 narrow lancets. 1st floor corbelled out on continuous rounded corbel with cornice over. On 1st floor 8 small square 2-pane windows in boldly-moulded surrounds. Top cornice. Conical roof with fish-scale slates.
Interior is one tall storey. Walls lined with embossed blue and white tiles. Rows of game hooks. Marble shelf round walls and a round marble table in the centre.
Garden wall to west, attached to castle,c.12 feet high with ridged and roll- moulded coping. 5 buttresses on garden side. Similar wall to east links with Walled Garden (q.v.). Attached to rear a segmental carriage arch.
Listing NGR: NT9445437568
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238059
- 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.
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