Ludworth Tower is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. A Medieval Tower house.
Ludworth Tower
- WRENN ID
- second-screen-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1952
- Type
- Tower house
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Listing NGR: NZ3558341289
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