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© Mr Gordon Dixon
IoE Number:
236269
Location:
HEPPLE TOWER, B6341 (south side)
HEPPLE, ALNWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND
Photographer:
Mr Gordon Dixon
Date Photographed:
25 March 2005
Date listed:
21 October 1953
Date of last amendment:
21 October 1953
Grade
II*
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HEPPLE B 6341
NY 90 SE
(South side)
2/29 Hepple Tower
21.10.53
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.