Turton Tower

Grade I listed Turton Tower is a late medieval manor house, which was altered and enlarged mainly in late 16th and early 19th Centuries.

Based on a stone pele tower of two storeys raised to three story around 1596, with windows of that a similar date and others dating to the 17th Century.

There is a late 16th Century, two-storey double-gabled porch with jettied, and timber-frameded upper floor.

The cruck-framed wing to the north dates to the 16th Century or possibly earlier, which has been subsequently raised and altered; with various early additions and alterations made in the 19th Century, in matching style but on larger scale.

(References: VCH; Pevsner; N.G. Philips Views of the Old Halls of Lancashire and Cheshire 1822-24, published by Gray 1893; G.E. Peter Laws A Guide to Turton Tower 1985).

Created: 12  June  2021  Edited: 29  November  2023