Heiferlaw Tower
HEIFERLAW TOWER, B 6341
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1304282
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Heiferlaw Tower
- Statutory Address:
- HEIFERLAW TOWER, B 6341
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1304282
- Date first listed:
- 31-Dec-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Heiferlaw Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- HEIFERLAW TOWER, B 6341
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:
- HEIFERLAW TOWER, B 6341
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Denwick
- National Grid Reference:
- NU 18269 17715
Details
DENWICK B 6341 NU 11 NE (West side, off) 6/40 Heiferlaw Tower 31.12.69 I
Lookout tower for Alnwick Abbey, dateable to 1470-89 from heraldry. Large squared stone; roofless. Rectangular 3-storey tower 8.76 x 7.4 metres externally. South elevation shows ground floor loop re-cut to Gothick quatrefoil, blocked square-headed 2-light window above (mullion missing) under panel with Alnwick Abbey and Percy arms, and 2nd-floor loop. Left return shows moulded 2-centred-arched doorway and 1st floor loop; right return shows loops to lower floors with similar heraldic panel and trefoil- headed niche above. 1st and 2nd floor loops to rear.
Interior: lst-floor fireplace with corbelled lintel;sockets for lst-floor beams and corbels for 2nd floor.
The Percy arms have a pair of fetterlocks (handcuffs) within the usual crescent, a form used by the 4th Earl of Northumberland, who also built the towerhouse at Hulne Friary.
Hugill, R. 'Borderland Castles and Peles', p. 112.
Listing NGR: NU1826917715
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236377
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hugill, R, Borderland Castles and Peles, (), 112
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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