Longridge Tower
LONGRIDGE TOWER, A698
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154722
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Longridge Tower
- Statutory Address:
- LONGRIDGE TOWER, A698
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1154722
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Longridge Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- LONGRIDGE TOWER, A698
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:
- LONGRIDGE TOWER, A698
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horncliffe
- National Grid Reference:
- NT9581649948
Details
NT 94 NE
6/54
22.12.69
HORNCLIFFE
A698 (off)
(South side, off)
Longridge Tower
II
Country house, now school. c.1876 by J.C. and C.A. Buckler for Sir Hubert
Jerningham. Sandstone ashlar, roofs not visible. Tudor style. A large
mansion on irregular plan. 2 storeys with 3-storey tower to right. An
asymmetric and very freely composed 7-bay facade. 4th bay has large rib-
vaulted porte-cochere with multi-moulded Tudor arches, battlements, and
octagonal pinnacles at the corners with ogee caps. Above and behind this
a large mullioned-and-transomed oriel on moulded corbel. This bay projects
and is embattled with corbelled-out higher embattled turrets. Elsewhere
large mullioned-and-transomed windows. Bays flanking entrance are very
narrow with tall ground-floor windows of 2 transoms. Left bay has an
embattled single-storey bay window with well-carved heraldic crest above.
lst-floor string; cornice below moulded parapet with octagonal angle turrets,
some of them embattled and some doubling as chimneys. The tower recessed
on right return has large and complex buttresses; small windows; Jerningham
crest on 1st floor. Very large service wings to rear.
Interior: Entrance hall has imperial stair with twisted wrought-iron balusters
and twisted stone newels. Stone centrepiece has Tudor arch beneath and
stone balustrade above with trefoiled arches.
Great hall has 2 large Tudor arches and false hammer-beam roof with grotesque
heads on the ends of the beams.
Source: The Liddell Family and Richard Grainger and his Descendants:
pamphlet in Northumberland Records Office.
Listing NGR: NT9581649948
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237907
- 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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