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Latitude: 55.3928 / 55°23'34"N
Longitude: -2.0169 / 2°1'0"W
OS Eastings: 399026
OS Northings: 610984
OS Grid: NT990109
Mapcode National: GBR G6C2.4N
Mapcode Global: WHB08.ZQQ5
Plus Code: 9C7V9XVM+46
Entry Name: Tower House
Listing Date: 21 October 1953
Last Amended: 3 September 1986
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1232573
English Heritage Legacy ID: 407949
ID on this website: 101232573
Location: Alnham, Northumberland, NE66
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Alnham
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Upper Coquetdale
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
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ALNHAM ALNHAM
NT 91 SE
8/6 Tower House
21/10/53 Formerly listed as
The Youth Hostel
(The old Vicarage)
GV II*
House. C14, first mentioned in 1405,and about 1840. Dressed stone and ashlar
with Welsh slate roof. Irregular. 2 storeys.
Medieval tower on left with T-plan C19 house attached to right.
Doorway recessed under pent roof in angle between the two sections.
Tower has 2- and 1-light C19 mullioned windows with floating cornices. C19
battlements with corner turrets.
Projecting bay to right of door has similar 3-light window on ground floor and
2-light above.
Gabled roofswith corniced ridge stacks.
Interior: tower has vaulted ground floor and walls 9 ft. thick.
Originally a 'vicar's pele'. Described as "long uninhabited and uninhabitable"
in 1821 but in use again by 1844. Later used Youth Hostel but now a private
house. 1
N.C.H. Vol. 14 pages 561 and 572.
Listing NGR: NT9903210986
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