Darwen Jubilee Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Blackburn with Darwen local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1972. Observation tower. 2 related planning applications.
Darwen Jubilee Tower
- WRENN ID
- shifting-timber-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1972
- Type
- Observation tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 62 SE DARWEN
SD 678 215
4/1 Darwen Jubilee Tower 17-4-1972 - II
Observation tower, 1897. Rock-faced sandstone. Late medieval style: octagonal tower 86ft. high, incorporating a spiral staircase to observation decks and surrounded at the base by a buttressed open arcade carrying a low-level deck. Base has stone shield over each arch, a band above these, and a ramped parapet to the deck. Tower has Tudor-arched doorway to deck on west side, lancet stairlights, bracketed cornice, embattled parapet with cross-shaped arrowslits at the angles, and is surmounted by a lantern with domed cap and weathervane. Tower was built when, after a protracted legal dispute with the lord of the manor and the owner of shooting rights, Darwen Moor became public property.
Listing NGR: SD6787021576
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