Rochford Tower |
Hob Uid: 353869 | |
Location : Lincolnshire Boston Fishtoft
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Grid Ref : TF3507044510 |
Summary : The standing and buried remains of a medieval brick fortified house. The house is believed to have been built in the late 15th to early 16th century. The building formerly included a two storey range adjoining the north side of the tower. This range was dismantled in 1807. The monument includes the standing tower and the buried remains of the former range. The tower is rectangular in plan, measuring 9 metres by 8 metres, and stands four storeys high, with a crenellated parapet and turrets at the angles of the tower. The structure is mainly of red brick with stone window dressings. At ground floor level there is a brick vaulted chamber, or undercroft. The tower was formerly part of a larger building, shown by the bonding scars of a two storey range on the exterior of the northern wall of the tower. The range, forming part of the domestic accommodation, was provided with a communicating doorway to the tower at second storey level. The former range, running north from the tower, will survive as buried foundation remains. The present house was built circa 1807 and was altered and extended in 1860. |
More information : [35084448] Rochford Tower [O.E.]. (1) Rochford Tower is a late 15th or early 16th century brick structure, with stone windows, embattled parapet and corner stairway, now derelict. There are considerable foundations in the enclosures adjacent to the tower. The tower takes its name from the Rochford family, mentioned as early as 1274. Sir Ralph Rochford was living here in 1390. The present tower was probably built about 1504 when the property was granted to the abbot of Westminster. An adjoining house of that period was taken down in 1807. From c.1600 till 1816 the property was owned by the Kyme family and became known as Kyme Tower. It is published as such on OS 1" of 1824. Scheduled as Rochford Tower. Crop marks, both rectangular and circular, visible on air photographs (6) and centred at TF 350446, are possibly associated. (2-6) See GPs of tower, AO/65/38/1 and 2. It is surrounded by ploughland, no evidence of building sites was seen. (7)
Moat mentioned, possibly very dubious. (8-9)
Listed as a reject by Cathcart King. (12) |