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The Tentering Tower

A Grade II Listed Building in Eden, Lancashire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 53.6608 / 53°39'39"N

Longitude: -2.3209 / 2°19'15"W

OS Eastings: 378893

OS Northings: 418309

OS Grid: SD788183

Mapcode National: GBR DV73.BF

Mapcode Global: WH97J.B72W

Plus Code: 9C5VMM6H+8M

Entry Name: The Tentering Tower

Listing Date: 5 December 1991

Last Amended: 10 March 1992

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1254273

English Heritage Legacy ID: 185847

ID on this website: 101254273

Location: Chatterton, Rossendale, Lancashire, BL0

County: Lancashire

District: Rossendale

Town: Rossendale

Electoral Ward/Division: Eden

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Ramsbottom

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire

Church of England Parish: Stubbins St Philip

Church of England Diocese: Manchester

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Description


SD 71 NE THE TENTERING TOWER Stubbins Vale Road (Also known as The Wet 255-0/9/10001 Tower)

Formerly listes as THE WET TOWER)

II

Cloth store associated with former tenterfields; now derelict. 1866, for Porritt's Stubbins Vale Mill; raised c.1880. Coursed rock-faced sandstone, except the west wall which is of coursed rubble; no roof. Square plan. Designed as an eye-catcher. Formerly single-storey, now 2 storeys, 3 windows, symmetrical; with simple oversailing battlements to the north, east and south sides. The architectural front to the east has 3 unglazed vertical-rectangular windows on each floor; both sides have one similar window on each floor; and the entrance front to the west has a large round-headed doorway in the centre of the ground floor and a loading doorway above this approached by stone steps flush with the wall to the right (but now mostly fallen), both flanked by windows like those at the front but that to the right at ground floor now blocked. Interior now a void. History: used to store cloths before and after they were stretched on tenters; shown in a photograph of c.1870 as a single-storey building, with cloths on long tenter-frames in the field to the rear of it.

Listing NGR: SD7889318309

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