Heiferlaw Tower is a Grade I listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1969. A Medieval Tower.
Heiferlaw Tower
- WRENN ID
- quiet-finial-mist
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1969
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Heiferlaw Tower, B 6341, Denwick
- OS grid reference
- NU 182 177
- Coordinates
- 55.45296, -1.71272
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Heiferlaw Tower is a lookout tower for Alnwick Abbey, dating from 1470 to 1489, as indicated by its heraldry. The tower is constructed from large squared stone and is currently roofless. It has a rectangular shape, measuring 8.76 by 7.4 metres externally, and stands three storeys tall.
On the south elevation, the ground floor features a loop that has been re-cut into a Gothic quatrefoil shape, with a blocked square-headed two-light window above it, where the mullion is missing. This is situated under a panel displaying the arms of Alnwick Abbey and the Percy family, along with a loop on the second floor. The left side of the tower shows a moulded two-centred-arched doorway and a loop on the first floor, while the right side has loops on the lower floors, accompanied by a similar heraldic panel and a trefoil-headed niche above. The rear of the tower also includes loops on the first and second floors.
Inside, there is a fireplace on the first floor with a corbelled lintel, as well as sockets for the first-floor beams and corbels for the second floor. The Percy arms feature a pair of fetterlocks (handcuffs) within the usual crescent, a design associated with the 4th Earl of Northumberland, who also constructed the tower house at Hulne Friary.
Local climate
Heiferlaw 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 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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