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Hussey Tower
In the civil parish of Boston.
In the historic county of Lincolnshire (Modern Authority of Lincolnshire, 1974 county of Lincolnshire).
The standing and buried remains of a medieval brick fortified house. The house is belived to have been built in the mid to late C15 for Richard Bennington. The tower was later owned by Lord Hussey, and following his death, in 1537, the estate was granted to the Corporation of Boston. A gatehouse was demolished in 1565, and repairs were made to the remainder of the buildings, which were then rented by Joseph Whiting. In the early C18 further buildings were dismantled including the domestic range adjoining the tower, and in 1728 the lead and timber were removed from the tower. The tower is rectangular with an octagonal stair turret projecting from the north east corner. It measures 9m by 8m, with walls 1m in width, and stands three storeys high with a portion of the crenellated parapet. The tower is mainly of red brick with stone dressings. At ground floor level is a formerly rib-vaulted chamber which would have provided a storage area and is now entered by the doorway in the east wall. The tower was formerly part of a larger building as shown by the bonding and roof scars of a two storey range on the exterior of the east wall of the tower. The range, forming part of the domestic accommodation, was slightly narrower than the tower with communicating doorways between the range and the tower at ground and first floor levels. The former range, running east from the tower, will survive as buried remains.
This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 486443)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is TF33084363
PastScape number;
353942
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles of the East Midlands (Malvern) p51
Emery, Anthony, 2000, Greater Medieval Houses Vol2 (Cambridge) p223
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p143
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p265 [possible]
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol1 p434
- Journal Articles
- Smith, T.P., 1979, ‘Hussey Tower, Boston: a late medieval tower-house of brick’, Lincolnshire History and Archaeology Vol14 p31-7
Thompson, A.H., 1932, Archaeological Journal Vol89 p370
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