Description

TOWER ROAD
1. (West Side)
5195
Elm Court
Pierremont,
Dentdale East,
Tower House,
Pierremont Hall.
NZ 2715 1/392

II

2.
Formerly Pierremont, home of Henry Pease. Mid-late C19 picturesque group which
has been subdivided from one original dwelling. Collegiate Gothic in style, of
coursed freestone With ashlar dressings. Mainly of 2 storeys, with many gables.
Five-bay south front has central projecting battlemented square tower whose 4 angle
turrets have hat-shaped caps; and an oriel with perpendicular tracery. Other windows
are stone mullioned and transomed, some Tudor arched with dripmoulds; and some
have glazing with margin lights. Elm Court has a range of colonnades, with polished
granite columns (some paired) and elliptical arches, stretching south-eastwards
and ending in an open grotto or artifical ruin with artfully disposed rough rocks
holding foliage and having mirrors set in the walls. This addition was built
in 1873, architect Sir A Waterhouse. Pierremont Hall has an earlier plainer north
range, the original house before the Gothic additions.

Listing NGR: NZ2792715241

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26414454

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Recommended Books

• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas