Broughton Tower

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Broughton in Furness

In the civil parish of Broughton West.
In the historic county of Lancashire (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).

House, now school, incorporating C14 pele tower with vaulter basement which was extended to the south in the mid/late C18. The wings were added in 1882-3 and the building was further extended in C18. Stone-built, with slate roofs. Also former site of a dovecote, no longer surviving above ground.

This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

listed building

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The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD21398792

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 38570

Books

Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p274 [slight]
Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p28
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p244
Gibson, Leslie Irving, 1977, Lancashire Castles and Towers (Dalesman Books)
Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS) p376-7
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1969, Lancashire, 2. The rural north (Harmondsworth) p78
Farrer, William and Brownbill, J. (eds), 1914, VCH Lancaster Vol8 p403-4
Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal) p258-9
Fishwick, 1907, in Fishwick and Ditchfield (eds), Memorials of Old Lancashire Vol2 p19-20 [weak]

Journal Articles

1939, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol39 p289-90

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