BRACKENBURGH OLD TOWER

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Fortified house. Late 14th or early 15th century with 1852 alterations and additions by William Atkinson and further 1902-3 alterations by Sir Robert Lorimer for Joseph Harris. Extremely thick dressed red sandstone walls with 20th century battlemented ashlar parapet and ashlar chimney stacks; 20th century angle turret and cupola.

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Listed Grade II. (1)

Listed with plan. (2)

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(1) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

District of Eden, 28-Oct-1986

(2) Denis R Perriam and John Robinson 1998 The medieval fortified buildings of Cumbria : an illustrated gazetteer and research guide

Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society extra series vol.29 Page(s)196

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