Listed building outline
Shortflatt Tower
Geographical area
About this entity
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| CURIE | listed-building-outline:1042821 | no fact link |
| Prefix | listed-building-outline | Facts about Prefix |
| Reference | 1042821 | Facts about Reference |
| Name | Shortflatt Tower | Facts about Name |
| Quality | Authoritative: We have some data from the authoritative source | no fact link |
| Dataset | Listed building outline | no fact link |
| Organisation | Northumberland County Council | no fact link |
| Start date | 1952-08-27 | Facts about Start date |
| End date | Facts about End date | |
| Entry date | 2013-01-29 | Facts about Entry date |
| Typology | geography | no fact link |
| Geometry |
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| Point |
POINT (-1.877209 55.123325)
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| Notes | BELSAY SHORTFLATT NZ 08 SE 4/70 Shortflatt Tower 27.8.52 GV I House and tower. Licence to crenellate 1305 for Robert de Reynes, but most existing work is later. The tower seems late C15 or early C16, the attached house early C17 incorporating and re-using earlier masonry. Squared stone. Tower has stone slate roof, other parts Welsh slate. 3-storey tower; 2-storey house attached to east and 2 parallel wings running north from house. South (garden) front: Tower, projecting on left, has chamfered plinth and irregularly-placed early C19 sashes. Inner return has Tudor-arched doorway, now a window; left half of lintel with relief carving of shield and panel, the right half uncarved. Hollow-chamfered base to battlemented parapet with stone water spouts. Steeply-pitched gabled roof with end stacks. Attached house of 4 irregular bays has C18 12-pane sashes beneath early C17 string courses which rise above each window. Roof hipped on right. Enormous ridge stack between 3rd and 4th bays. Roof marks on stack reveal that the building was formerly 3 storeys (cf. interior). North (entrance) side has C19 Tudor-style doorway into tower. Similar windows, several in double-chamfered surrounds. In tower one enlarged C16 window with chamfered surround and 3 blocked similar windows. North-east corner of tower has a small single-storey projection of older masonry with a double plinth. Interior: tower has tunnel-vaulted ground floor; one jamb of a recently discovered (1985) large C16 or C17 fireplace on 1st floor; and a possibly re- set earlier medieval fireplace, with chamfered jambs and corbels supporting flat lintel, on the 2nd floor. Massive C16 roof timbers. In the roof space of the adjoining wing a C16 or early C17 fireplace, also vestiges of plasterwork proving existence of former second floor. In the dining room a wood Rococo fire surround and contemporary Delft tiles. H. Honeyman considered the tower to be of 1305 but more recent information from Mrs. L. Milner (pers. comm.) suggest the later date. An extremely picturesque house. Archaeologia Aeliana 4th Series XXXII, 1954, pp 126-159. , | Facts about Notes |
| Listed building | 1042821 | Facts about Listed building |
Available Code Snippets:
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