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© Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
IoE Number:
110032
Location:
LUDWORTH TOWER REMAINS AT TOWER FARM,
SHADFORTH, DURHAM, DURHAM
Photographer:
Mr Bob Cottrell ARPS AFIAP DPAGB
Date Photographed:
23 May 2004
Date listed:
28 February 1952
Date of last amendment:
14 January 1988
Grade
II
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SHADFORTH LUDWORTH
NZ 34 SE
8/41 Ludworth Tower
28/2/52 (Formerly listed
as Ludworth Tower
remains at
Tower Farm)
II
Ruins of tower house. Early C15. (1422 licence to crenellate to Thomas
Holden). Thin courses of ochre-coloured limestone, and some magnesian
limestone, with sandstone quoins. West elevation: 2 fragments of only
surviving wall, to height of 3 storeys with central gap, have 2 roughly-
rectangular first-floor window openings, and one on second floor, with
dressings removed. East elevation shows rough stone voussoirs over deeply-
splayed jambs of these openings; fragments of first-floor fire hood at side
of gap, with apparent nook shaft. Fragment of stone spiral stair at north.
Remains of barrel-vaulted ground-floor chamber.
Fragments formerly identified to south of road now covered over or dispersed.
Source W. Hutchinson, The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine
of Durham, 1785, 3 vols; II 586.