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Latitude: 52.7087 / 52°42'31"N
Longitude: -2.9211 / 2°55'15"W
OS Eastings: 337866
OS Northings: 312739
OS Grid: SJ378127
Mapcode National: GBR B9.2HHJ
Mapcode Global: WH8BR.358R
Plus Code: 9C4VP35H+FH
Entry Name: The Tower House and Adjoining Courtyard Walls at Rowton Castle
Listing Date: 29 January 1952
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1175699
English Heritage Legacy ID: 258953
ID on this website: 101175699
Location: Shropshire, SY5
County: Shropshire
Civil Parish: Alberbury with Cardeston
Traditional County: Shropshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Shropshire
Church of England Parish: Alberbury
Church of England Diocese: Hereford
Tagged with: Architectural structure
SJ 3612-3712
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29.1.52
ALBERBURY WITH CARDESTON C.P.
ROWTON
The Tower House and
adjoining courtyard walls
at Rowton Castle
GV
II
Service block, now house. Dated 1828. Coursed Alberbury breccia rubble
with red sandstone ashlar dressings; plain tile roof. 2 storeys with
flanking 3-storey square towers; Tudor Gothic style. Central block with
plinth and drip mould beneath eaves; towers with cornices, chamfered-coped
battlemented parapets and integral brick stacks on inner faces with
3 octagonal shafts. 2-window centre; wooden cross-windows with chamfered
reveals and returned hoodmoulds; central C20 glazed door with returned
hoodmould; towers with first-floor 2-light wooden casements and ground-floor
wooden cross-windows, both with chamfered reveals and returned hoodmoulds,
and chamfered slit windows to second storey. Central first-floor
shield with date. 2 attached walls to right linking service block to
Rowton Castle (qv), the higher behind with chamfered coping, the lower
in front with chamfered battlemented coping and segmental-headed doorway
to left. Interior not inspected. The service block forms the north-east
side of the service courtyard to the south-west of Rowton Castle (qv).
Listing NGR: SJ3786612739
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