The Mount

Heritage listing

Details Hunting tower, later retained as a folly, built in the C17 or early C18 for either the first or second duke of Bolton. MATERIALS: coursed local limestone (Great Scar limestone), squared rubble walling with extensive ashlar dressings. PLAN: square, and single-celled. EXTERIOR: not inspected: information from other sources. The tower is of two storeys, the first floor being slightly taller than the ground floor. The building is classical in design with prominent, well-dressed rusticated quoins, a simple ashlar plinth, a plain ashlar band at mid-height, and an ashlar cornice with a low, parapet above. Each elevation has a large, centrally-placed first-floor window which rises from floor level, that to the north elevation being architraved. The entrance is central to the north elevation and is quoined. The ground floors of the other three elevations have large blind or blocked windows, the one to the west elevation having a slightly projecting ashlar frame. At the time of listing (2021), the tower was partially ruinous and had lost its roof structure and all of its other timberwork. The north elevation stood effectively complete whilst the west elevation had lost about half of its cornice and parapet. The upper third of the south-east corner of the tower had collapsed with the loss of the cornice, parapet and first floor window heads to the south and east elevations. INTERIOR: not inspected.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.