COCKLAW TOWER
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: I
List Entry Number: 1156641
Date first listed: 15-Apr-1969
Statutory Address: COCKLAW TOWER
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Location
Statutory Address: COCKLAW TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
District: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish: Wall
National Grid Reference: NY 93926 71154
Summary
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
WALL COCKLAW
NY 97 SW
2/339 Cocklaw Tower
15.4.69 I
Towerhouse, late C14 or early C15. Large squared stone, probably re-used Roman
material. Rectangular plan; 3 floors,each with single large chamber,smaller
chamber to south and newel stair at south-east corner. Chamfered set-back
above basement and hollow-chamfered cornice (largely fallen) below parapet.
South elevation shows central pointed chamfered doorway to basement and
scattered chamfered loops; above cornice, remains of taller turret at south-
west corner. East elevation shows similar doorway at 1st floor level with
window of 2 trefoil-headed lights (mullion gone) to right, also various chamfered
loops; west elevation shows similar 2-light 1st-floor window, north elevation
only loops.
Interior: vaulted lobby with doorway to stair on right and hole broken through
wall on left into former prison originally accessible only via trapdoor from
painted chamber above. Main basement barrel vault partly fallen at north end.
Painted chamber, with remains of C16 mural decoration, on south at 1st floor
level, and garderobe to north-west. Mezzanine chamber on south between 1st and
2nd floors, entered only from stair.
The virtually-intact shell of a towerhouse.
W.H. Knowles, 1895, 'Cocklaw Tower', Trans Architectural and Archaeological
Society of Durham and Northumberland, IV, 309-15.
Listing NGR: NY9392671154
Legacy
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Legacy System number: 240098
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
'Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North' in Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and North, , Vol. 4, (1895), 309-15
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing