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© Mr Richard Quirk
IoE Number:
75801
Location:
BROUGHTON TOWER SPECIAL SCHOOL,
BROUGHTON WEST, SOUTH LAKELAND, CUMBRIA
Photographer:
Mr Richard Quirk
Date Photographed:
03 September 2003
Date listed:
18 May 1953
Date of last amendment:
18 May 1953
Grade
II*
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SD 2187 BROUGHTON WEST BROUGHTON-IN-FURNESS
23/30 Broughton Tower
Special School
18.5.53 II*
House, now school. C14 pele tower, extended to south mid to late C18, wings
added 1882-3, C20 additions. Stone rubble with ashlar dressings and slate
roofs. South facade of 2 storeys with basement and 8 bays, 3-bay centre
breaks forward, 1st and 7th and 8th bays form projecting wings. Quoins and
coped embattled parapet. Ogee-headed windows have architraves and are
sashed, with glazing bars, with octagonal and square quarries and intersecting
glazing bars to heads, but wings have single glazing bars and Y tracery heads.
Porch has embattled parapet and ogee-headed entrance up steps, with clustered
shafts, pinnacles and fleuron. 3-storey pele tower visible to rear, with
embattled parapet and blind Diocletian window. Cross-axial stacks. North
elevation has pele tower to centre with embattled parapet with escutcheon.
Pointed windows, paired with balcony to ground floor, similar windows to
returns. Flanking lean-to bays to returns have gable-end stacks; low C20
single storey projections. Wing to east has 3-storey round tower to angle.
Windows are pointed with sashes. Wing to west has square turret and 2-storey,
2 bay service wing with smaller wing to west; sashed windows and hipped roof.
S
Rainwater heads dated: "ES/1777", "R C7/17/44" and "IS/1837". West elevation
has ogee-headed windows as to south elevation and ogee-headed entrance.
Interior has rooms with ribbed ceilings. Hall has dog leg stair with open
string and 2 balusters to the tread. Landing has 2 segmental arches. Re-set
French early C16 portal has shaped pediment. Dining room has re-set Italian
Renaissance chimney piece. Vaulted basement and spiral stair to former
pele tower.