Fenwick Tower
FENWICK TOWER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1370708
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- Statutory Address:
- FENWICK TOWER
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- Date:
- 2005-05-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/13974/20
- Rights:
- © Mr John Hogg. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1370708
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- Statutory Address 1:
- FENWICK TOWER
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FENWICK TOWER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Matfen
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 05743 72885
Details
MATFEN FENWICK NZ 07 SE
15/163 Fenwick Tower
GV II
House. Medieval core, C17 house, enlarged and altered early C19. Squared stone with Welsh slate roof. L-plan. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Central 6-panel door in C19 wood porch. 16-pane sash windows. The right half of the facade has much older thicker masonry; window jambs of this part have sections of double- chamfered surround; also reveals cut straight through wall. Roof hipped on right with corniced ridge and end stacks. Attached on right a single-storey, 2-bay early C18 shed with boarded door and small Yorkshire sash; very steeply- pitched roof with reverse-stepped gables.
Right return has irregular openings. 6-panel door to left in recessed C17 surround with hoodmould. Right of this a C19 sash, then a blocked doorway with similar surround. On the right a boarded battened door in ovolo-moulded wood surround.
Gable end of rear wing has rough medieval masonry including the springing of a vault, fragmentary remains of tower of Fenwick family mentioned in 1415 (cf. farmbuildings).
Listing NGR: NZ0574372885
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238646
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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