Ludworth Tower
LUDWORTH TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159823
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Ludworth Tower
- Statutory Address:
- LUDWORTH TOWER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1159823
- Date first listed:
- 28-Feb-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Ludworth Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- LUDWORTH 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:
- LUDWORTH TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Shadforth
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 35583 41289
Details
SHADFORTH LUDWORTH NZ 34 SE 8/41 Ludworth Tower 28/2/52 (Formerly listed as Ludworth Tower remains at Tower Farm) II
Ruins of tower house. Early C15. (1422 licence to crenellate to Thomas Holden). Thin courses of ochre-coloured limestone, and some magnesian limestone, with sandstone quoins. West elevation: 2 fragments of only surviving wall, to height of 3 storeys with central gap, have 2 roughly- rectangular first-floor window openings, and one on second floor, with dressings removed. East elevation shows rough stone voussoirs over deeply- splayed jambs of these openings; fragments of first-floor fire hood at side of gap, with apparent nook shaft. Fragment of stone spiral stair at north. Remains of barrel-vaulted ground-floor chamber. Fragments formerly identified to south of road now covered over or dispersed. Source W. Hutchinson, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, 1785, 3 vols; II 586.
Listing NGR: NZ3558341289
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 110032
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hutchinson, W, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham, (1785), 586
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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