Preston Tower (New)

Preston Tower (New), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233960
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: Preston Tower (New)
Statutory Address:: Preston Tower (New), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1233960
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1987
List Entry Name:: Preston Tower (New)
Statutory Address 1:: Preston Tower (New), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Preston Tower (New), Preston, Chathill, NE67 5DH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ellingham
National Grid Reference:: NU 18444 25412

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 30/07/2019

NU 12 NE 11/160

ELLINGHAM CHATHILL PRESTON Preston Tower (New)

(Formerly listed as Preston Tower (New), Preston)

GV II House. c.1805 for Edmund Craster. East wing added 1862. Entrance side altered 1915. Ashlar with Welsh slate roof.

Garden side: two storey, five bay main block with lower two storey, four bay east wing to right and single storey, L-plan outbuilding on extreme right. Main block has pedimented three bay centre breaking forward slightly. Porch of two pairs of Roman Doric columns with fluted necking, cornice and panelled blocking course. Sill bands and sash windows. Cornice, and parapet with panels of bold guilloche moulding. Hipped roof with three large mid C19 brick chimneys. East wing has twelve-pane sashes and gabled roof with flat coping and kneelers.

Entrance side: main block seven bays with three bay centre of 1915 replacing early C19 centre of giant attached Ionic columns; it has large solid porch. Twelve-pane sashes on ground floor, nine-pane sashes above.

Interior: imperial stair with stick balusters; coffered ceiling in hall. Marble Gothick fireplace in drawing room with Tudor-arched lintel, clustered shafts and quatrefoils. Good multi-moulded cornices. Six-panel doors and reveals.

Listing NGR: NU1844425412

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Legacy System number:: 409577
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.