Vicarage Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. Tower house. 1 related planning application.
Vicarage Tower
- WRENN ID
- strange-cloister-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Tower house
- Address
- Vicarage Tower, Main Street, Ponteland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 164 728
- Coordinates
- 55.04977, -1.74369
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Vicarage Tower is a tower house located on Main Street in Ponteland. It is said to date from the 14th century, but the existing remains appear to be from the 16th or early 17th century. The structure is built of random rubble, patched with brick, and has three storeys, measuring approximately 24 by 20 feet in plan.
On the south side, there are three large openings that feature 20th-century lintels. The west side has a blocked 16th-century door with a chamfered surround, along with a roof groove and holes for roof timbers from a former adjoining wing. One chamfered jamb of the doorway into this wing remains, complete with a har post and drawbar slot. There is also a blocked door on the first floor that incorporates part of an early-medieval grave cover with a Celtic cross as a jamb stone. Additionally, there are two 16th-century windows with chamfered surrounds and a roof groove from the former attached wing. At the time of the survey, the tower was noted as a controlled ruin.
Local climate
Vicarage Tower receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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