Elsdon Tower

Elsdon Tower is a medieval tower house converted to use as a Rectory situated at Elsdon, Northumberland. (Gbmapping|NY93609339). It is a Grade I listed building. [http://www.durham.gov.uk/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N9742 Keys to the Past] ] [http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=236252&mode=quick English Heritage, Images of England:Elsdon Tower] ]

The property was first recorded as a "Vicars Pele", a pele tower in the occupation of the Rector of Elsdon in 1415. [http://homepage.mac.com/philipdavis/English%20sites/2531.html Gatehouse Gazetteer] ]

The tower originally of four storeys was reduced in the 17th century to only three with a steeply sloping roof above a castellated parapet [http://sine.ncl.ac.uk/view_structure_information.asp?struct_id=103 Structures of the North East] ]

In the early 19th century Archdeacon Singleton built an entrance porch and a two storey, two bayed house extension.

The house was in use as the Rectory until 1960. It was fully renovated and restored in the 1990s.

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