More information : (NY 94977784) Tower (GT) (Remains of) (1)
Little Swinburn tower was probably erected soon after 1415. It measures externally 40 feet north-south by 27 feet east-west, with walls about 5 feet thick, and has had about three floors. (2)
The tower, although showing signs of restoration, is in poor
condition, with some parts in imminent danger of collapse. Walls are approximately 12 feet high on the north and 20 feet on the south side. Lying on the ground just outside the west wall is the head of a small pointed window, cut from a single block of stone. (3)
Authy. 3 confirmed. (4)
Condition unchanged. See photograph. (5)
NY 9499 7775. Shrunken medieval village, tower and fishpond at Little Swinburne. Scheduled RSM No 20942. The tower has been much robbed of stone but the remains show that it was faced in courses of of roughly squared blocks with traces of a protruding chamfered course 3.5m above ground level. It measures 9.2m N-S by 5.2m E-W within walls 1.5m thick which survive up to 3.7m on the N and 6m on the S side. The tower had a vaulted basement, traces of which can be seen in the NW corner. The walls survive at least one storey above this but earlier accounts describe three storeys above a basement, with an entrance lobby and staircase in the E side of the tower. Little Swinburne Tower was constructed shortly after 1415, and is mentioned in a document of 1541. It formed part of the medieval village of East Swinburne, later referred to as Little Swinburne (see NY 97 NW 39). (6)
Listed by Dodds. (7) |