BROUGHTON TOWER SPECIAL SCHOOL

BROUGHTON TOWER, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, LA20 6AA

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1335949
Date first listed:: 18-May-1953
List Entry Name:: BROUGHTON TOWER SPECIAL SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BROUGHTON TOWER, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, LA20 6AA

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1335949
Date first listed:: 18-May-1953
List Entry Name:: BROUGHTON TOWER SPECIAL SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BROUGHTON TOWER, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, LA20 6AA

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BROUGHTON TOWER, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, LA20 6AA

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

District:: Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Broughton West
National Park:: LAKE DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SD 21397 87917

Details

This List entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/01/17

SD 2187, 23/30

BROUGHTON WEST, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, Broughton Tower

(Formerly listed as: Broughton Tower Special School)

18.05.53

II*

Former house, school, now flats. C14 pele tower, extended to south mid to late C18, wings added 1882-3, C20 additions. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. South facade of two storeys with basement and eight bays, 3-bay centre breaks forward, 1st and 7th and 8th bays form projecting wings. Quoins and coped embattled parapet. Ogee-headed windows have architraves and are sashed, with glazing bars, with octagonal and square quarries and intersecting glazing bars to heads, but wings have single glazing bars and Y tracery heads. Porch has embattled parapet and ogee-headed entrance up steps, with clustered shafts, pinnacles and fleuron. 3-storey pele tower visible to rear, with embattled parapet and blind Diocletian window. Cross-axial stacks. North elevation has pele tower to centre with embattled parapet with escutcheon. Pointed windows, paired with balcony to ground floor, similar windows to returns. Flanking lean-to bays to returns have gable-end stacks; low C20 single-storey projections. Wing to east has 3-storey round tower to angle. Windows are pointed with sashes. Wing to west has square turret and 2-storey, 2-bay service wing with smaller wing to west; sashed windows and hipped roof. S Rainwater heads dated: "ES/1777", "R C7/17/44" and "IS/1837". West elevation has ogee-headed windows as to south elevation and ogee-headed entrance. INTERIOR has rooms with ribbed ceilings. Hall has dog leg stair with open string and 2 balusters to the tread. Landing has 2 segmental arches. Re-set French early C16 portal has shaped pediment. Dining room has re-set Italian Renaissance chimney piece. Vaulted basement and spiral stair to former pele tower.

Listing NGR: SD2139787917

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Legacy System number:: 75801
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.