Broughton Tower Special School
BROUGHTON TOWER, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, LA20 6AA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1335949
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- Statutory Address:
- BROUGHTON TOWER, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, LA20 6AA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1335949
- Date first listed:
- 18-May-1953
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROUGHTON TOWER, BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS, LA20 6AA
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75801
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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