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
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 February 1952
- Type
- Tower house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Ludworth Tower, Shadforth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 355 412
- Coordinates
- 54.76529, -1.44851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ludworth Tower is a ruin of a tower house dating from the early 15th century, with a license to crenellate granted to Thomas Holden in 1422. The structure features thin courses of ochre-coloured limestone, some magnesian limestone, and sandstone quoins. On the west elevation, two fragments of the surviving wall rise to three storeys and have a central gap. This wall includes two roughly rectangular window openings on the first floor and one on the second floor, though the dressings have been removed. The east elevation displays rough stone voussoirs over deeply splayed jambs of these openings, with a fragment of a first-floor fire hood at the side of the gap, which has an apparent nook shaft. There is also a fragment of a stone spiral stair on the north side and remains of a barrel-vaulted chamber on the ground floor. Fragments that were previously identified to the south of the road are now either covered over or dispersed.
Local climate
Ludworth Tower sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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