Description

SD 47 NE ARNSIDE

7/1 Arnside Tower
12.2.62

II*

Fortified Tower House. Probably C15. Burnt 1602, repaired probably mid C17,
dismantled late C17. Massive limestone rubble walls with roughly dressed stone
details. Staircase tower of rectangular plan and projecting garderobe.
Formerly 5 storeys. Window openings to all sides, some blocked or extended:
surviving openings have square heads. Parapet, projecting on rounded corbels,
survives to North-west corner. Interior has remains of cross-wall incorporating
newel stair, fireplaces with stone lintels and a niche on the first floor said
to have been used as a piscina which suggests that the East corner may have been
a chapel. Although ruinous at time of survey it appears to be a unique example
in this area of a freestanding tower built without a hall block.
See RCHM pp 14-15 for further description and plan.

Listing NGR: SD4589076855

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Arnside Tower at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q4795410

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