Description

NZ 18 NW NZ 14978613
lO/ll5
20.10.69

MELDON
NEWTON UNDERWOOD
Old cottage and adjacent
ruin(previously listed as
Newton Underwood Tower)

II

Ruins probably medieval; cottage C18. Squared stone; pantile roof. Cottage
2 low storeys, 3 bays, irregular. Right-of-centre vertical-panelled door
flanked by Yorkshire sashes, that to left having lost its carpentry as have
3 small windows directly beneath the eaves. Brick end stacks. To left
outbuilding has cart entrance and door with timber lintels. To right, slightly
set forward, ruined wall 2m. thick with large semicircular arch; roughly-shaped
voussoirs. Left and right returns of cottage and outbuilding show reverse-
stepped gables. Rear elevation; outshut to cottage, to left ruined wall of
large rectangular blocks.

The ruined structure, formerly known as the 'Old Walls' does not appear to
have been a conventional tower house. Hodgson wrote (Part II, Vol II, 72)
that c.1800 there were two similar arches adjoining .... on the east.

Listing NGR: NZ147286136

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26651841

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