Turton Tower - Wikipedia
Turton Tower is a manor house in Chapeltown in North Turton, Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade I listed building. [1] It was built in the late Middle Ages as a two-storey stone pele tower which was altered and enlarged mainly in
Turton Tower - landscapebritain.co.uk
2021年6月12日 · Turton Tower. Grade I listed Turton Tower is a late medieval manor house, which was altered and enlarged mainly in late 16th and early 19th Centuries. Based on a stone pele tower of two storeys raised to three story around 1596, with windows of that a similar date and others dating to the 17th Century.
Category : Turton Tower - Wikimedia
Media in category "Turton Tower" The following 24 files are in this category, out of 24 total. 143 of 'Old Halls in Lancashire and Cheshire, including notes on the ancient domestic architecture of the Counties Palatine.
Inside Turton Tower - Life In The Mouse House
2018年10月26日 · The very top floor of the original tower is known as the Chetham Room and was converted in the 19th century by the Kay family into a bedroom and billiard room. These are long gone, with the space becoming one big room with the walls stripped back so the original stone architecture can be seen.
A History of Turton Tower, Chapeltown, Near Bolton
2018年5月7日 · Originally the tower would have had farm equipment stored on the ground floor (and possibly cattle too). The first floor was the dining hall and the top floor would be sleeping accommodation. The Orrells owned it through Tudor and early Stuart times and began to …
Turton Tower, North Turton, Blackburn with Darwen
Turton Tower is a Grade I listed building in North Turton, Blackburn with Darwen, England. See why it was listed, view it on a map, see visitor comments and photos and share your own comments and photos of this building.
Turton Tower - Engole
The drawing room on the first floor also has 16th-century windows, and the walls are panelled in oak to within four feet (1 m) of the elaborate restored Elizabethan ceiling. The tower’s second floor has a billiard room and a passage. [2]
Turton Tower – Mysterious Britain & Ireland
2013年1月25日 · The plan, as will be gathered from the foregoing description, follows no precedent; the original peel tower, having been retained and altered to suit later requirements, now contains the principal rooms of the house, the dining-room occupying the ground floor, and the drawing-room the floor above.
Turton Tower [24 photos] in SD73051521 - Geograph Britain and …
Turton Tower is a distinctive English country manor house located in the small village of Chapeltown, North Turton on the edge of the West Pennine Moors. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a grade I listed building (English Heritage Building ID: …
Turton Tower, Chapeltown Road, North Turton, Lancashire
This tower house or pele was begun in the early to mid 16th century. The original stone tower was raised from two to three storeys in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (c1596). A pele or peel tower was a small, strong, fortified tower house with its entrance on the first floor. It was only occupied in times of trouble.