Arnside Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the Westmorland and Furness local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1962. A Medieval Fortified tower house.
Arnside Tower
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-banister-peregrine
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westmorland and Furness
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1962
- Type
- Fortified tower house
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 47 NE ARNSIDE
7/1 Arnside Tower 12.2.62 II*
Fortified Tower House. Probably C15. Burnt 1602, repaired probably mid C17, dismantled late C17. Massive limestone rubble walls with roughly dressed stone details. Staircase tower of rectangular plan and projecting garderobe. Formerly 5 storeys. Window openings to all sides, some blocked or extended: surviving openings have square heads. Parapet, projecting on rounded corbels, survives to North-west corner. Interior has remains of cross-wall incorporating newel stair, fireplaces with stone lintels and a niche on the first floor said to have been used as a piscina which suggests that the East corner may have been a chapel. Although ruinous at time of survey it appears to be a unique example in this area of a freestanding tower built without a hall block. See RCHM pp 14-15 for further description and plan.
Listing NGR: SD4589076855
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