Prior Castells Tower North Sunderland, England
Listed Building Data
Prior Castells Tower has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1234461
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 22 December 1969
- Name
- PRIOR CASTELLS TOWER
- Location
- PRIOR CASTELLS TOWER
- Parish
- North Sunderland
- District
- Northumberland
- Grid Reference
- NU 21784 35996
- Easting
- 421784.0000
- Northing
- 635996.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
NORTH SUNDERLAND INNER FARNE NU 23 NW Farne Islands 5/176 Prior Castell's Tower 22.12.69 GV I Tower house. Said (by Leland) to be for Robert Castell, Prior of Durham 1494-1519, but appears to incorporate earlier work. Random rubble with chamfered plinth. 3 storeys. Round-headed doorway on south side. Offset above 1st floor. Castellated parapet with higher stair turret in south-west corner which has 2 very small lancets to the stairs. On north side 3 scattered early C19 windows with pointed-arched heads and intersecting glazing bars. Interior: keeled tunnel-vaulted ground floor with well in the corner. Mural stair to 2nd floor given handrail, splat balusters and newels with incised Gothick decoration. 1st floor room has trefoiled piscina. Garderobe with seat. 2 C18 segmental- arched fireplaces, one incorporating earlier stonework. The original room divided in two by screen of mid C18 panelling with 2 segmental-arched cupboards.
Listing NGR: NU2178435996
