Ford Castle Game Tower With Attached Garden Walls And Carriage Arch is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Game tower.
Ford Castle Game Tower With Attached Garden Walls And Carriage Arch
- WRENN ID
- south-bracket-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Game tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
FORD FORD CASTLE NT 9437 17/92 Game Tower with attached garden walls and carriage arch II
Game larder. Mid-late C19 for the Marchioness of Waterford. Ashlar with stone slate roof. Tower round, 2 storeys. Boarded door with 2-centred arch under dripmould. 2 narrow lancets. 1st floor corbelled out on continuous rounded corbel with cornice over. On 1st floor 8 small square 2-pane windows in boldly-moulded surrounds. Top cornice. Conical roof with fish-scale slates.
Interior is one tall storey. Walls lined with embossed blue and white tiles. Rows of game hooks. Marble shelf round walls and a round marble table in the centre.
Garden wall to west, attached to castle,c.12 feet high with ridged and roll- moulded coping. 5 buttresses on garden side. Similar wall to east links with Walled Garden (q.v.). Attached to rear a segmental carriage arch.
Listing NGR: NT9445437568
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