Brackenburgh Old Tower

Has been described as a Certain Pele Tower

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameBrackenburgh Old Tower
Alternative NamesBrackenbrough
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishHesket

Fortified house. Late C14 or early C15 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 C20 battlemented ashlar parapet and ashlar chimney stacks; C20 angle turret and cupola. (PastScape)

Fortified house. Late C14 or early C15 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 C20 battlemented ashlar parapet and ashlar chimney stacks; C20 angle turret and cupola. Roof within parapets and hidden from view. Extensions of red sandstone ashlar under graduated greenslate roof with crow-stepped gable. 3-storey square tower with lower rear 2- and 3-storey, 3-bay extensions of 2 different builds, forming overall L-shape. Various 2- and 3-light C19 and C20 stone-mullioned windows under hoodmoulds. Left return wall has 2 small upper-floor windows, otherwise it is difficult to identify blocked windows obscured by ivy growth. Extensions have C20 doorway in re-entrant angle and similar 2- and 3-light windows to those in tower. Glazed organgery links with the main house, Brackenburgh. Internal C19 and C20 alterations. Reputedly built as a house for the warden of Inglewood Forest but there are virtually no references to this building. (Listed Building Report)

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
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Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY476383
Latitude54.7377281188965
Longitude-2.8146800994873
Eastings347630
Northings538380
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 21
  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 196 (plan)
  • King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 1 p. 94
  • Pevsner, N., 1967, Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth: Penguin) p. 179
  • Hussey, Christopher, 1931, The Work of Sir Robert Lorimer (Country Life Ltd) p. 40-41

Journals

  • Graham, T.H.B., 1923, 'Hesket-in-the-Forest' Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol. 23 p. 36 online copy