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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1969
- Type
- Tower
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
DENWICK B 6341 NU 11 NE (West side, off) 6/40 Heiferlaw Tower 31.12.69 I
Lookout tower for Alnwick Abbey, dateable to 1470-89 from heraldry. Large squared stone; roofless. Rectangular 3-storey tower 8.76 x 7.4 metres externally. South elevation shows ground floor loop re-cut to Gothick quatrefoil, blocked square-headed 2-light window above (mullion missing) under panel with Alnwick Abbey and Percy arms, and 2nd-floor loop. Left return shows moulded 2-centred-arched doorway and 1st floor loop; right return shows loops to lower floors with similar heraldic panel and trefoil- headed niche above. 1st and 2nd floor loops to rear.
Interior: lst-floor fireplace with corbelled lintel;sockets for lst-floor beams and corbels for 2nd floor.
The Percy arms have a pair of fetterlocks (handcuffs) within the usual crescent, a form used by the 4th Earl of Northumberland, who also built the towerhouse at Hulne Friary.
Hugill, R. 'Borderland Castles and Peles', p. 112.
Listing NGR: NU1826917715
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