Description

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TQ 16 SE
6/460

ESHER
Claygate
RUXLEY RIDGE (east end, off)
The Tower at Ruxley Towers

II

Tower, now part of office. C1870 for Lord Foley. Stuccoed; roof concealed. Five-stage octagonal tower with taller octagonal stair lower on north-east side. In C15 Gothic style having: square-headed windows with hood-moulds, of two lights to upper stages of main tower, of one light to stair lower; looped arrow slits at top of stair tower; corbelled embattled parapets (that of main tower fenestrated) with roll-moulded coping; dragon gargoyles. Main tower has segmental-arched doorway next to stair tower, larger windows on ground floor, and first floor oriel window on south-west side.

Remainder of the building not of special architectural or historic interest.

Listing NGR: TQ1644063156

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26281302

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Recommended Books

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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)