Tower House is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1953. A Medieval House.
Tower House
- WRENN ID
- proud-quartz-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1953
- Type
- House
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ALNHAM ALNHAM NT 91 SE 8/6 Tower House 21/10/53 Formerly listed as The Youth Hostel (The old Vicarage)
GV II*
House. C14, first mentioned in 1405,and about 1840. Dressed stone and ashlar with Welsh slate roof. Irregular. 2 storeys.
Medieval tower on left with T-plan C19 house attached to right.
Doorway recessed under pent roof in angle between the two sections.
Tower has 2- and 1-light C19 mullioned windows with floating cornices. C19 battlements with corner turrets.
Projecting bay to right of door has similar 3-light window on ground floor and 2-light above.
Gabled roofswith corniced ridge stacks.
Interior: tower has vaulted ground floor and walls 9 ft. thick.
Originally a 'vicar's pele'. Described as "long uninhabited and uninhabitable" in 1821 but in use again by 1844. Later used Youth Hostel but now a private house. 1
N.C.H. Vol. 14 pages 561 and 572.
Listing NGR: NT9903210986
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