Hepple Tower

HEPPLE TOWER, B6341

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1371440
Date first listed:
21-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:
Hepple Tower
Statutory Address:
HEPPLE TOWER, B6341

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1371440
Date first listed:
21-Oct-1953
List Entry Name:
Hepple Tower
Statutory Address 1:
HEPPLE TOWER, B6341

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HEPPLE TOWER, B6341

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

District:
Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hepple
National Grid Reference:
NT9865900652

Details

NY 90 SE
2/29
21.10.53

HEPPLE
B 6341
(South side)
Hepple Tower

GV
II*

Tower. C14. Squared stone. Ruined. South wall stands to c.40 ft. Lower
part of stair projection to right was originally in centre of south wall but
east side has now collapsed.
Left return (west side) also stands to c.40 ft. Doorway on ground floor was
originally a window. Lintel of window on lst floor has stump of mullion and
holes for iron bars.
Rear (north) side stands to c.40 ft; the east side of it has collapsed.
East wall collapsed.
Interior: Walls c.8ft thick. Most of tunnel vault remains. Corbels below
vault formerly supported a loft. Round-headed, broadly-splayed, rere arch of
west window; above the inside of the window a chamfered string course.

Listing NGR: NT9865900652

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
236269
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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