Grinlow Tower

GRINLOW TOWER, GRIN LOW ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1259254
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1987
Statutory Address:
GRINLOW TOWER, GRIN LOW ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1259254
Date first listed:
07-Jan-1987
Date of most recent amendment:
31-Jan-1997
Statutory Address 1:
GRINLOW TOWER, GRIN LOW ROAD

Location

Statutory Address:
GRINLOW TOWER, GRIN LOW ROAD

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

County:
Derbyshire
District:
High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SK 05399 71743

Details

BUXTON

SK07SE GRIN LOW ROAD 616-1/2/114 (North side (off)) 07/01/87 Grinlow Tower (Formerly Listed as: OFF GRIN LOW ROAD Soloman's Temple at Grid Ref SK 054 718)

II

Also known as: Soloman's Temple GRIN LOW ROAD. Folly. 1840 for Samuel Mycock. Rebuilt 1894 and restored in 1987. Rubble limestone, with tooled gritstone dressings. Circular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Round headed doorway reached up 4 steps. Impost and sill bands link with 7 round headed openings with keystones. Above blind circular opening over door, 7 further blind openings all round headed and linked by chamfered sill band. Above ashlar courses to eaves, moulded eaves band and battlements. INTERIOR: stone spiral stairs with iron handrail. HISTORY: originally built to provide work for the town's unemployed.

Listing NGR: SK0539971743

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Legacy System number:
463100
Legacy System:
LBS

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