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
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Game tower
- OS grid reference
- NT 944 375
- Coordinates
- 55.63164, -2.08966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ford Castle Game Tower, built in the mid to late 19th century for the Marchioness of Waterford, is a game larder made of ashlar stone with a stone slate roof. The tower is round and has two storeys. It features a boarded door with a two-centred arch beneath a drip mould, and two narrow lancet windows. The first floor extends out on a continuous rounded corbel with a cornice above, and has eight small square two-pane windows in boldly-moulded surrounds, topped with a cornice. The conical roof is covered with fish-scale slates.
Inside, there is one tall storey with walls lined in embossed blue and white tiles, rows of game hooks, a marble shelf around the walls, and a round marble table in the center.
To the west, there is a garden wall attached to the castle, approximately 12 feet high, featuring ridged and roll-moulded coping and five buttresses on the garden side. A similar wall to the east connects with the Walled Garden. At the rear, there is a segmental carriage arch.
Local climate
Ford Castle Game Tower with Attached Garden Walls and Carriage Arch receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% 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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