Tower House
TOWER HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232573
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Tower House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1232573
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Sept-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Tower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER HOUSE
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:
- TOWER HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Alnham
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 99026 10984
Details
ALNHAM ALNHAM NT 91 SE 8/6 Tower House 21/10/53 Formerly listed as The Youth Hostel (The old Vicarage)
GV II*
House. C14, first mentioned in 1405,and about 1840. Dressed stone and ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Irregular. 2 storeys.
Medieval tower on left with T-plan C19 house attached to right.
Doorway recessed under pent roof in angle between the two sections.
Tower has 2- and 1-light C19 mullioned windows with floating cornices. C19 battlements with corner turrets.
Projecting bay to right of door has similar 3-light window on ground floor and 2-light above.
Gabled roofswith corniced ridge stacks.
Interior: tower has vaulted ground floor and walls 9 ft. thick.
Originally a 'vicar's pele'. Described as "long uninhabited and uninhabitable" in 1821 but in use again by 1844. Later used Youth Hostel but now a private house. 1
N.C.H. Vol. 14 pages 561 and 572.
Listing NGR: NT9903210986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407949
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dodds Hope, M, A History of Northumberland in The Parishes of Alnham Chatton Chillingham Eglingham Ilderton Ingram and Whittingham The Chapelries of Lowick and Doddington, (1935), 561, 572
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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