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IoE Number:
73873
Location:
THE OLD TOWER,
HESKET, EDEN, CUMBRIA
Photographer:
N/A
Date Photographed:
N/A
Date listed:
24 October 1986
Date of last amendment:
24 October 1986
Grade
II
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NY 43 NE HESKET BRACKENBURGH
10/149 The Old Tower
II
Fortified house. Late C14 or early C15 with 1852 alterations and additions by
William Atkinson and further 1902-3 alterations by Sir Robert Lorimer for Joseph
Harris. Extremely thick dressed red sandstone walls with C20 battlemented
ashlar parapet and ashlar chimney stacks; C20 angle turret and cupola. Roof
within parapets and hidden from view. Extensions of red sandstone ashlar under
graduated greenslate roof with crow-stepped gable. 3-storey square tower with
lower rear 2- and 3-storey, 3-bay extensions of 2 different builds, forming
overall L-shape. Various 2- and 3-light C19 and C20 stone-mullioned windows
under hoodmoulds. Left return wall has 2 small upper-floor windows, otherwise
it is difficult to identify blocked windows obscured by ivy growth. Extensions
have C20 doorway in re-entrant angle and similar 2- and 3-light windows to those
in tower. Glazed organgery links with the main house, Brackenburgh (q.v.).
Internal C19 and C20 alterations. Reputedly built as a house for the warden of
Inglewood Forest but there are virtually no references to this building. See
Christopher Hussey, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer, 1931, pp.40-1.