NEWTON UNDERWOOD TOWER, MELDON
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Description
"....The 'Old Walls' ruins may well represent a defensible building although there is a tendency in this area to see all old buildings as defensible and that habit is an old one true even when Hodgson was writing in the early C19. Certainly it was a thick walled vaulted building and may date back to the C16. Hodgson's account would seem to suggest a building built on three adjoining semicircular arches (like a bridge) possible all open to the south side and if that was the form it could not really be defensible but neither would these be quite the quality one might expect from a loggia. They may have functioned as horse stables. Further investigation of the surrounding area to get a fuller plan of the original building complex may throw some light on things....." -
Owner
Gatehouse Gazetter -
Source
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Further information
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