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Burradon Tower
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Burrowton
In the civil parish of Longbenton.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of North Tyneside, 1974 county of Tyne and Wear).
Approximately 7.5m high and 7.7m by 6.9m wide, with a single chamber on each floor reached by a newel stair in the south east corner. The tower is constructed of sandstone blocks with walls generally surviving to a course of corbels at a height of 7m, which supported the built out battlements. The walls are of a greater height in the south east corner, where they survive to a height of 7.5m. Sections of the east, south and west walls have been lost and only survive to the first floor level. The tower is believed to have been built in C16 and continued in occupation into C17, but is depicted as ruins on Armstrong's tithe map of 1769. By C19 the tower had become part of the adjoining Burrandon Farm and the lower two chambers had been made habitable by the construction of an internal tiled roof. The tower was conserved in 1977.
This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants 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 303247)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ27637303
PastScape number;
25254
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p29
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p61
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p200 [slight]
Pevsner, N., 1992 (revised by Grundy, John et al), The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p203
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p329
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p83-4
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p76
Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles [1970 Reprint by Frank Graham] p52-3
Craster, H.H.E. (ed), 1909, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol9 p43-8
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p22
- Journal Articles
- Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser3] Vol13 p15
1898, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle Vol8 p229-31
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