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Whitton Tower

A Grade II* Listed Building in Whitton and Tosson, Northumberland

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Coordinates

Latitude: 55.3035 / 55°18'12"N

Longitude: -1.9124 / 1°54'44"W

OS Eastings: 405657

OS Northings: 601052

OS Grid: NU056010

Mapcode National: GBR H723.RN

Mapcode Global: WHB0Q.LYJM

Plus Code: 9C7W833Q+C2

Entry Name: Whitton Tower

Listing Date: 21 October 1953

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1371030

English Heritage Legacy ID: 236335

ID on this website: 101371030

Location: Whitton, Northumberland, NE65

County: Northumberland

Civil Parish: Whitton and Tosson

Traditional County: Northumberland

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland

Church of England Parish: Upper Coquetdale

Church of England Diocese: Newcastle

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Description


TOSSON WHITTON
NU OO SE
4/96 Whitton Tower
21.10.53
GV II*

Tower house and attached house, originally a 'vicar's pele' and later the
rectory; now divided into two units. C14 tower; attached house mid C19.
Tower squared stone, house ashlar; Welsh and Lakeland slate roofs. Irregular
plan. C19 house in Tudor style.

Entrance front entirely C19. 2 storeys, 4 bays. Castellated porch in 3rd bay.
Mullioned and mullion-and-transom windows, under hoodmoulds on ground floor,
floating cornices on 1st floor. Complex and irregular roofs with elaborate
kneelers, shaped gables and large corniced end stacks.

Attached to rear, 4-storey tower with chamfered plinth; 2 small slit windows
with chamfered surrounds lighting staircase. C19 mullion-and-transom bay
window with castellated top. Parapet and corner turrets C19. To rear the
shield of the Umfravilles.

Interior: Tower walls c.8 ft. thick. Basement has pointed tunnel vault
entered by doorway with shouldered lintel; fine ashlar well in floor. Ground
floor has high pointed tunnel vault divided into two rooms by later wall.
Ground-floor entrance has tunnel-vaulted wall passage whose inner and outer
doorways have pointed arches and continuous chamfers; the outer doorway now
blocked. A 3rd door, with shouldered lintel, leads from this passage to base
of stone newel stair. The staircase has another door also with shouldered
lintel, directly into the main vaulted room. Similar original doorways lead
from stairs on upper floors.

Attached house had cantilevered stair with slender turned balusters. 4 pointed
stone arches in hall. Several stone Gothic fireplaces.


Listing NGR: NU0565701052

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