Overgrass Tower and Adjacent Ruins is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1969. Ruins.
Overgrass Tower and Adjacent Ruins
- WRENN ID
- fossil-cupola-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1969
- Type
- Ruins
- Address
- Overgrass Tower and Adjacent Ruins, Newton-On-The-Moor and Swarland
- OS grid reference
- NU 144 033
- Coordinates
- 55.32387, -1.77387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Overgrass Tower and the adjacent ruins are the remains of a tower house dating from the late 14th century or 15th century, along with a smaller building likely from the 18th century. The tower is constructed of massive squared stone and has a rectangular plan measuring 7.15 by 4.7 metres internally, with walls that are 1.8 metres thick. There is a slight projection for a staircase next to the entrance at the east end of the south wall. The walls of the tower stand to about the first-floor level, except for the south-east corner, and the side walls retain most of their facing and a chamfered set back two metres up. The south wall features the west jambs of both inner and outer doorways, while the east wall has a central loop and the west wall contains a central loop along with a garderobe shaft. Inside, there is a nearly complete slightly-pointed tunnel vault, which includes mural cupboards on the south side (now bricked up) and the east side.
Adjoining the west part of the north wall is the smaller rectangular building, which has walls that mostly stand to three metres high but lack architectural features aside from a small loop and a segment-headed oven recess, which was formerly at the rear of a hearth with a fire hood, located on the north side.
Local climate
Overgrass Tower and Adjacent Ruins receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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