More information : [NZ 07938099] Shortflatt Tower [L.B.] (1)
Built after 1296 (licence to crenellate 1305), but much altered. A
house with 16th/17th c features is attached to it. (2)
See photograph. (3)
Tunnel-vaulted tower with battlements and stone spouts. 16th or 17th century house attached. (4) (For full description see list).
Shortflatt Tower. Three storey tower, probably of late 15th/early 16th century date. An early 17th century house adjoins to the east, with two parallel wings running north from it. The house is now two storeyed, but internal and external evidence suggest that there were formerly three. Listed Grade I. (5)
A timber manor house existed on the site from 1206, but following a severe fire in the mid 1290s, the manor house was cleared and replaced by a tower house, so strong as to be referred to as a `fortalice'. However, lack of money meant that the tower was in a poor state of repair by 1490, and it was not until the rearly C17, when it had passed on to William Selby, that it was repaired and put into good order. He cleared away the small east wing, built a comfortable manor house, and a North wing was added later. (6)
Listed by King. (7) |