Description

SD 65 SW OVER WYRESDALE

13/35 Tower Lodge
2-5-1968
- II

House, early C19th, intended as lodge to Wyresdale Tower, a shooting lodge
which was never completed and is now a ruin. Rubble with hipped slate
roof. Rectangular on plan, with rounded corners. Gothick style. Now
appears to be of 2 storeys but has no original lst floor windows. South
wall, facing road, has 2 windows whose plain stone surrounds have pointed
heads. They now have modern casements, with glazing bars forming Y-tracery
above. Above and between them is a blank quatrefoil with circular stone
surround. Under the eaves at the right is a modern window with plain
reveals. Central chimney. The west wall has 2 similar window surrounds,
the left-hand one blank, the right-hand one with gothick glazing. Above
and between them is a blank quatrefoil similar to the one on the south
wall. The door, between bays, has a pointed head.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26326824

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey