The Octagon Tower is a Grade II* listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1967. Tower.
The Octagon Tower
- WRENN ID
- fallow-beam-tide
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1967
- Type
- Tower
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SE 2868 9/74 6.3.67
LINDRICK WITH STUDLEY ROYAL AND FOUNTAINS STUDLEY PARK The Octagon Tower
GV II*
Tower. 1728-32 by Robert Doe for John Aislabie, altered after 1742 for William Aislabie, and restored c1970. Originally built as a classical garden ornament it was Gothicised later. Octagonal and of 3 stages with deep plinth to first stage and second stage with the entrance on east side. 6-panel double door in Gothick-style porch with buttresses containing arched niches, reached by 8 steps flanked by outward curving walls with pointed coping and end piers with ball finials. Round-arched sashes with restored glazing bars to windows of raised ground floor, roll mouldings and pointed- arched recesses above. The third stage is composed of pointed quatrefoil openings to parapet with crocketed finials above. This tower forms a group with the Tunnel and Mr Aislabie's Kitchen (qv). Scheduled Ancient Monument. G Beard, Studley Royal, Country Life, 1961.
Listing NGR: SE2806468977
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