BROUGHTON TOWER

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House, now school, incorporating a 14th century pele tower with dungeon which was extended to the south in the mid/late 18th century. The wings were added in 1882-3 and the building was further extended in the 20th century. Stone-built, with slate roofs. Also former site of a dovecote, no longer surviving above ground.

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(SD 21398792) Broughton Tower (NR)
'A' (SD 21478801) Pigeon Cote (Ruins) (TI) (1)

Broughton Tower is a spacious mansion built round a 14th century pele tower. On the north side the tower is visible up to about 60 feet. In the mid-15th century the house was built. The windows are all ogee-headed. In 1832 to 3 the wings were added, keeping the front in harmony with the Georgian work. (2)

A rubble-built tower with well-fashioned quoins. All windows are modern except for a small square window above ground level in the north-east wall. Extensions against the north-west and
south-east sides have drainpipes dated 1744 and 1777. The south-west block is modern.

No traces are now to be seen of the Pigeon Cote. The site is 115.0m north-east of the tower which is a nearly level area in a pasture field.

"The artificial earthwork" (a) possibly refers to SD 28 NW 7
which lies within the grounds. (3)

Now a special school owned by the Lancashire County Council. (4)

Broughton Tower, A Medieval pele tower extended into a large pseudo-Gothic style mansion in the 18th century, altered and two end towers added to the facade in 1881, is grade 2*. (5)

House, now school, incorporating a 14th century pele tower which was extended to the south in the mid/late 18th century. The wings were added in 1882-3 and the building was further extended in the 20th century. Stone-built, with slate roofs. Listed Grade II*. (6)

Listed with plan and illustrations. (7)

Listed by Cathcart King. (8)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 6" 1850

( 2) by Nikolaus Pevsner 1969 Lancashire, 2. The rural north

The buildings of England Bldgs of Eng North Lancs 1969 78 (N Pevsner) Page(s)78

( 3a) Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society

Trans Cumb & Westm A & AS 13 1913 258-9 (J F Curwen) 13 Page(s)258-9

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 09-AUG-57

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F2 RWE 10-JAN-69

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

DOE (HHR) North Lonsdale RD Lancs Aug 1962 141

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

District of South Lakeland, 05-MAR-1990

(7) 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)376-7

(8) by David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the islands. Volume I : Anglesey - Montgomery

Page(s)244

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