The Tentering Tower
THE TENTERING TOWER, STUBBINS VALE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254273
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1991
- List Entry Name:
- The Tentering Tower
- Statutory Address:
- THE TENTERING TOWER, STUBBINS VALE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254273
- Date first listed:
- 05-Dec-1991
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 10-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- The Tentering Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TENTERING TOWER, STUBBINS VALE 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:
- THE TENTERING TOWER, STUBBINS VALE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Lancashire
- District:
- Rossendale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 78893 18309
Details
SD 71 NE THE TENTERING TOWER Stubbins Vale Road (Also known as The Wet 255-0/9/10001 Tower)
Formerly listes as THE WET TOWER)
II
Cloth store associated with former tenterfields; now derelict. 1866, for Porritt's Stubbins Vale Mill; raised c.1880. Coursed rock-faced sandstone, except the west wall which is of coursed rubble; no roof. Square plan. Designed as an eye-catcher. Formerly single-storey, now 2 storeys, 3 windows, symmetrical; with simple oversailing battlements to the north, east and south sides. The architectural front to the east has 3 unglazed vertical-rectangular windows on each floor; both sides have one similar window on each floor; and the entrance front to the west has a large round-headed doorway in the centre of the ground floor and a loading doorway above this approached by stone steps flush with the wall to the right (but now mostly fallen), both flanked by windows like those at the front but that to the right at ground floor now blocked. Interior now a void. History: used to store cloths before and after they were stretched on tenters; shown in a photograph of c.1870 as a single-storey building, with cloths on long tenter-frames in the field to the rear of it.
Listing NGR: SD7889318309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 185847
- 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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