Norton Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1969. Tower.
Norton Tower
- WRENN ID
- tattered-hearth-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1969
- Type
- Tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 95 NE B6265 (east side, off) 6/69 Norton Tower 6.10.69
II Remains of tower. Probably C16 for Richard Norton. Coursed gritstone. A square structure, approximately 10 metres x 15 metres, the corners standing approximately 3 metres high but the walls slighted. Original entrance probably on the south side, remains of a fireplace and stone newel stair on east side, no windows survive. The ruin stands among extensive earthworks and is only one part of an important archaeological site which includes rabbit warrens (pillow mounds) and probably prehistoric field clearance cairns to the south. The building was a hunting lodge of the Nortons of Rylstone and Norton Conyers and was slighted after the family's involvement in the Rising of the North, 1569.
Listing NGR: SD9759257033
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