The 14th century Pele Tower’s character as a ruin – a memorable and long-standing feature of the site - has been successfully retained by deeply recessing new glazing within the massive depth of the ...

Hailing the history of the area’s fortified keeps known as ‘pele towers’, the building can be commended for its simplicity of concept and careful execution. The architects have skilfully brought this ...

The Grade One heritage-listed Turton Tower is a a manor house in Chapeltown on the moors above Darwen and Bolton dating from the Middle Ages. Its original pele tower was enlarged mainly in late ...

Visitors to Levens Hall can explore the fine Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th Century pele tower, filled with Jacobean furniture and early English patchwork. Call in at the Bellingham ...

The entry in the Times read: "This walk passes the medieval stronghold of Whitton Pele Tower, the 18th-century observatory of Sharp’s Folly and the Iron Age hillfort of Lordenshaws, before ...