Turton Tower
TURTON TOWER, CHAPELTOWN ROAD
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1241557
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Turton Tower
- Statutory Address:
- TURTON TOWER, CHAPELTOWN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1241557
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Turton Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- TURTON TOWER, CHAPELTOWN ROAD
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:
- TURTON TOWER, CHAPELTOWN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- North Turton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 73055 15220
Details
SD 71 NW TURTON (off) CHAPELTOWN ROAD
7/103 Turton Tower 27.1.1967 (Formerly listed under General) GV I Manor house, late medieval, altered and enlarged mainly in late C16 and early C19. Stone pele tower 2 storeys raised to 3 c.1596, with windows of that date and C17; 2-storey 2-gabled porch with jettied timber-framed upper floor, also late C16; cruck-framed wing to the north probably C16 or earlier, subsequently raised and altered; with various early C19 additions and alterations in matching style but on larger scale. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (References: VCH; Pevsner; N.G. Philips Views of the Old Halls of Lancashire and Cheshire 1822-24, published by Gray 1893; G.E. Peter Laws A Guide to Turton Tower 1985).
Listing NGR: SD7305515220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440684
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Philip, NG, Views of Old Halls in Lancashire and Cheshire, (1893)
Farrer, W, Brownbill, J, The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster, (1906)
Laws, G E P, A Guide to Turton Tower, (1983)
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Lancashire, (1969)
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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