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Hazelslack Tower
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Beetham 2; Helslack
In the civil parish of Beetham.
In the historic county of Westmorland (Modern Authority of Cumbria, 1974 county of Cumbria).
Tower, probably former solar block with Hall to East now demolished. Late C14 (RCHME). Roughly-coursed rubble. 4 storeys, part demolished. Scattered fenestration, mostly loop lights to ground floor with small square windows to upper floors. West side has 2-light window with trefoiled lights in square head at 3rd floor level. Large fireplace with segmental head to ground-floor in East side with smaller fireplace above and marks of gable of former adjoining building; original doorway with 2-centred-arched head in return wall of projecting part of tower. Interior has cross-wall, various fireplaces, some with segmental heads, base of open stone stairway becoming enclosed circular stair above, garderobes to south-west angle.
This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
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 76596)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is SD47627881
PastScape number;
41496
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 02520
- Web site links
- Books
- Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (CWAAS) p344
Salter, Mike, 1998, The Castles and Tower Houses of Cumbria (Malvern) p59
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p210
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p269
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p490
Hugill, Robert, 1977, Castles and Peles of Cumberland and Westmorland (Newcastle; Frank Graham) p93-4
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1967, Buildings of England: Cumberland and Westmorland (Harmondsworth) p250
RCHME, 1936, An inventory of the historical monuments in Westmorland (HMSO) p41
Curwen, J.F., 1913, Castles and Fortified Towers of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire North of the Sands (Kendal) p375
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p287
Taylor, M.W., 1892, Old Manorial Halls of Westmorland and Cumberland (CWAAS extra series Vol8) p215-16
- Journal Articles
- 1904, Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society Vol4 p341
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