Cranmore Tower
CRANMORE TOWER
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216763
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Cranmore Tower
- Statutory Address:
- CRANMORE TOWER
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- Date:
- 2007-07-28
- Reference:
- IOE01/16562/24
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1216763
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Cranmore Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRANMORE 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:
- CRANMORE TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranmore
- National Grid Reference:
- ST6766645023
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16/08/2016
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CRANMORE CP
Cranmore Tower
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II
Folly/prospect tower. Completed 1865, by T.H. Wyatt for John Moore Paget of Cranmore Hall (now part of All Hallows School) (q.v.). Rubble, pyramidal lead-sheeting roof, wide projecting eaves with a cornice, spike and ball finial. Square on plan, Italianate. Approximately 45m high. Viewing area at the top with pair of semi-circular headed openings to each face with a restored iron-railed balcony beneath each pair. A similar balcony just over half-way up is continued right round the tower. Access to the balconies is from an internal timber staircase which has been restored, single round-headed windows provide stairlights at intervals. Entrance at base to east. Contiguous buildings abutting to north at base of tower are virtually completely rebuilt and are not of special interest. Very prominently sited on a high point of the East Mendip range.
Listing NGR: ST6766645023
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 268252
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Orbach, J, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England. Somerset: South and West, (2015)
Davis, F, Images of England around Shepton Mallet, (2001)
de Viggiani, Mary, A Cranmore Chronicle, (1985)
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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