Description

HEDGELEY CRAWLEY
NU 01 NE
4/230 Crawley Tower,
with cottage inside
II*

Remains of towerhouse or tower solar. Early C14, with C18 cottage built
inside when the ruins were altered to form an eyecatcher on the Shawdon Estate.

Massive squared stone; cottage rubble with Welsh slate roof. Rectangular plan,
15.2 x 11.2 metres externally; wall toothings indicate former structure to the
north-east. L-plan cottage built against interior of south and west walls.

South elevation shows renewed door in C18 opening with small casement window
in modified loop to left. lst-floor casement in blocked doorway opening of
uncertain date, and 2 original windows at higher levels, each of 2 chamfered
lancet lights, mullions now missing. Irregular stepped C18 parapet. West
elevation shows remains of another early 2-light window above 2 later windows;
C18 embattled parapet.

North elevation shows 2-storey pent-roofed cottage inside tower, with various
casement and sash windows; above cottage roof, in south wall, is a segmental
rear arch, with window seats, of upper 2-light window. Remaining parts of
tower east and north walls have C18 crowstepped coping. Cottage has pent
single-storey part on exterior of north tower wall, with adjacent outbuilding.

Interior of cottage not seen; tower walls 2.6 metres thick, except on north
where there was probably a mural stair.

Licence to crenellate was granted in 1343, but the architectural features
probably pre-date this. Substantial earth works to the north suggest that
the tower formed part of a strongly-fortified complex.

Northumberland County History XIV 408-10.

Adjacent cottages are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU0689116514

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546425

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Recommended Books

• 
  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
• 
  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas