Description

SJ 3612-3712
14/48
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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26470177

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