Preston Tower (New) is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. House.
Preston Tower (New)
- WRENN ID
- proud-loft-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Preston Tower (New), Chathill, Ellingham, NE67 5DH
- OS grid reference
- NU 184 254
- Coordinates
- 55.52211, -1.70945
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Preston Tower is a house built around 1805 for Edmund Craster, with an east wing added in 1862 and alterations made to the entrance side in 1915. The building is constructed of ashlar stone and has a Welsh slate roof.
On the garden side, the house features a two-storey main block with five bays, a lower two-storey east wing with four bays to the right, and a single-storey L-plan outbuilding on the extreme right. The main block has a pedimented three-bay centre that slightly projects forward. The entrance porch is supported by two pairs of Roman Doric columns with fluted necking, topped with a cornice and a panelled blocking course. The façade includes sill bands and sash windows, along with a cornice and parapet adorned with bold guilloche moulding. The hipped roof is complemented by three large mid-19th century brick chimneys. The east wing features twelve-pane sash windows and a gabled roof with flat coping and kneelers.
On the entrance side, the main block has seven bays, with a three-bay centre from 1915 that replaced the earlier 19th-century centre featuring giant attached Ionic columns. This section includes a large solid porch, with twelve-pane sash windows on the ground floor and nine-pane sash windows above.
Inside, there is an imperial staircase with stick balusters and a coffered ceiling in the hall. The drawing room boasts a marble Gothick fireplace with a Tudor-arched lintel, clustered shafts, and quatrefoils, along with good multi-moulded cornices and six-panel doors with reveals.
Local climate
Preston Tower (New) 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 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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