Cresswell Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. A Medieval Tower house. 1 related planning application.
Cresswell Tower
- WRENN ID
- keen-cupola-hawk
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1969
- Type
- Tower house
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CRESSWELL CRESSWELL VILLAGE NZ 29 SE 8/12 Cresswell Tower 20.10.69 GV II*
Towerhouse, probably C14; embattled parapet early C18. Squared stone with dressings. Rectangular plan, 3 storeys. Segmental pointed doorways to ground and 1st floors on north, the upper being the original entrance (traces of machicolated projection above). Windows mostly rectangular chamfered loops, except for ground floor vesica on east and larger C17 window, formerly with mullion and transom, on 1st floor south. All openings to lower floors blocked at time of survey. Corbelled-out turrets at eastern angles, smaller corbelled projections at parapet level on south and west.
Interior: Ground floor has barrel vault. Newel stair at north-east corner. Contemporary fireplaces, mural recesses and garderobe.
The medieval tower of the Cresswells; an adjacent 'mansion house' on the north was built in the early C18 and demolished in the C19.
Listing NGR: NZ2936593356
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