Sighting Tower
SIGHTING TOWER, MOORLAND ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253379
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sighting Tower
- Statutory Address:
- SIGHTING TOWER, MOORLAND ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253379
- Date first listed:
- 07-Apr-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Sighting Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIGHTING TOWER, MOORLAND 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:
- SIGHTING TOWER, MOORLAND ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Bramhope
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 24742 42512
Details
BRAMHOPE MOORLAND ROAD SE 24 SW LS 16 (south side, off) 5/105 Sighting Tower - - II
Sighting tower built for construction of Bramhope railway tunnel. Probably 1845, for Leeds-Thirsk Railway. Coursed squared sandstone. Tall cylindrical structure, approx. 2 metres in diameter, with 4 narrow vertical-rectangular openings near the top; and a flat coping.
Listing NGR: SE2474242512
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436559
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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