Dacre Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 July 1957. A C14 Fortified tower house.
Dacre Castle
- WRENN ID
- final-stronghold-sable
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 July 1957
- Type
- Fortified tower house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NY 42 NE DACRE DACRE
16/31 Dacre Castle
17.7.57
I
Fortified tower house. C14 with C17 and C19 alterations. Extremely thick walls of dressed mixed sandstone with offsets, on chamfered plinth, the roof hidden by battlemented parapets. 2-storey rectangular tower over vaulted basement, with angle turrets. Entrance facade has off-centre doorway with stone surround, up L-shaped stone steps. Central C17 coat-of-arms of Earl of Sussex. Irregular fenestration of large C17 cross-mullioned windows, the turrets with smaller loops and 2-light windows. The right and rear left turrets are larger and square, compared with smaller opposing 45° turrets; the rear larger turret being the original entrance point with newel staircase. The interior has many original features such as fireplaces, oven recess, mural chambers and garderobes. See M.W. Taylor, Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland & Cumberland, 1892, pp.278-286; J.F. Curwen, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1913, pp.269-272.
Listing NGR: NY4603726488
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