Archaeology Notes
Event ID 731714
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NY26NW 5.00 23471 68871
NY26NW 5.01 23555 68837 Stapleton Tower, Corn Drying Kiln
See also:
NY26NW 33.00 2303 6823 Stapleton Grange Farmhouse; Farmsteading
NY26NW 33.01 2322 6832 Stapleton Bar Cottage
NY26NW 33.02 2293 6818 Stapelton Grange Cottages
NY26NW 33.03 22952 68677 Stapleton Lodge
(NY 2347 6887) Tower (NR)
OS 1:10,000 map, 1994.
Stapleton Tower, which dates from the 16th century, is a simple oblong building 43 feet by 27 1/2 feet, by 41 feet high to the parapet. A modern mansion abuts on the north east and north west walls of the tower, which has been modernised and is still occupied.
RCAHMS 1920
The modern mansion was demolished after the Second World War, but the tower is still entire although derelict.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 1967
No change to previous field report.
Visited by OS (JP) 22 February 1973.
This tower, 13m long by 8.3m wide, was built in the 16th century by the Irvines. The shell of the three storeys over a vaulted basement with a spiral stair in the E corner remains fairly complete.
M Salter 1993.