Norton Tower
NORTON TOWER, B6265
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316832
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Norton Tower
- Statutory Address:
- NORTON TOWER, B6265
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1316832
- Date first listed:
- 06-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Norton Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTON TOWER, B6265
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:
- NORTON TOWER, B6265
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rylstone
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 97592 57033
Details
SE 95 NE B6265 (east side, off) 6/69 Norton Tower 6.10.69
II Remains of tower. Probably C16 for Richard Norton. Coursed gritstone. A square structure, approximately 10 metres x 15 metres, the corners standing approximately 3 metres high but the walls slighted. Original entrance probably on the south side, remains of a fireplace and stone newel stair on east side, no windows survive. The ruin stands among extensive earthworks and is only one part of an important archaeological site which includes rabbit warrens (pillow mounds) and probably prehistoric field clearance cairns to the south. The building was a hunting lodge of the Nortons of Rylstone and Norton Conyers and was slighted after the family's involvement in the Rising of the North, 1569.
Listing NGR: SD9759257033
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 324823
- 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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