Hiorne Tower
Hiorne Tower, Arundel
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353747
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Hiorne Tower
- Statutory Address:
- Hiorne Tower, Arundel
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1353747
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Hiorne Tower
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hiorne Tower, Arundel
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:
- Hiorne Tower, Arundel
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Arun (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arundel
- National Park:
- South Downs
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0128608085
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 March 2026 to amend the name and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 00 NW
226/1B
Hiorne Tower
(Formerly listed as Hiorn's Tower)
26.3.49.
II*
1787-1789 .[Hiorne first employed on succession of 11th Duke of Norfolk in 1787, and died in 1789: these are therefore limiting dates for the design, not the construction].
Folly. Architect Francis Hiorn. Dressed knapped flint, with chequerboard flushwork of Pulborough stone. Pulborough stone dressings. Three storeys and parapet. Hexagonal in plan, with octagonal turrets abutting alternate sides. Three remaining sides have one window range each. First floor windows square-headed, three lights with four-centred relieving arch, subdivided by three unmoulded cuspless lancets. Hoodmoulds continued both ways as stringcourses. Crenellated parapet. Towers have four slits on each side, coved machicolation, crenellated parapets. Door is on west side, with pointed arched head set in oblong recessed panel. Two similar doors in east and south-west turrets, linked by balcony with iron railings. Hexagonal surrounding wall of flint knapped but not dressed, with chequerboard flushwork of Pulborough stone. Octagonal piers at angles and flanking gates, Pulborough stone with embattled tops. Three western sides of wall are half height, and are made up to their full height with iron railings; spear, fleur-de-lys, and Maltese cross finials. Gates on west sides; those on east side blocked.
Listing NGR: TQ0124807835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 297143
- 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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