Arnside Tower
ARNSIDE TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312275
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Arnside Tower
- Statutory Address:
- ARNSIDE TOWER
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312275
- Date first listed:
- 12-Feb-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Arnside Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARNSIDE TOWER
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:
- ARNSIDE TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Arnside
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 45878 76837
Details
SD 47 NE ARNSIDE
7/1 Arnside Tower 12.2.62 II*
Fortified Tower House. Probably C15. Burnt 1602, repaired probably mid C17, dismantled late C17. Massive limestone rubble walls with roughly dressed stone details. Staircase tower of rectangular plan and projecting garderobe. Formerly 5 storeys. Window openings to all sides, some blocked or extended: surviving openings have square heads. Parapet, projecting on rounded corbels, survives to North-west corner. Interior has remains of cross-wall incorporating newel stair, fireplaces with stone lintels and a niche on the first floor said to have been used as a piscina which suggests that the East corner may have been a chapel. Although ruinous at time of survey it appears to be a unique example in this area of a freestanding tower built without a hall block. See RCHM pp 14-15 for further description and plan.
Listing NGR: SD4589076855
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 76544
- 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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