Kirkandrews Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 April 1957. Tower house.
Kirkandrews Tower
- WRENN ID
- rough-rafter-sparrow
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 April 1957
- Type
- Tower house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NY 37 SE KIRKANDREWS KIRKANDREWS ON ESK
14/71 Kirkandrews Tower 1.4.57 G.V. II*
House, formerly tower house. C16 replacing earlier tower, for the Graham family, with C18 and C20 alterations. Thick red sandstone rubble walls on chamfered plinth with large flush quoins, corbelled parapets with projecting water spouts; steeply pitched gabled slate roof with parapet, end stone chimney stacks. 3 storeys, 2 bays. C20 first floor door in roll moulded architrave, reached by C19 external stone steps; entrance to basement below has plank door and similar architrave. Small original window to left of entrance; 2 similar windows on 2 levels above have been blocked. Partly blocked C18 openings, on 3 levels to left, with C20 casements. Rear wall has large C18 blocked window; C19 window to left, other windows are C20. Interior has vaulted basement originally reached by trap door from first floor. Newel staircase in thickness of wall beside entrance. See Curwen, Castles & Towers of Cumberland & Westmorland, 1913, p381.
Listing NGR: NY3891471928
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