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WillowTheWhisp 13-02-2006 12:02
Has anybody any idea what this is?
 
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We were out and about between Bolton by Bowland and Gisburn on Saturday and stopped by the River Ribble and spotted this building in an obvious state of ruin but we are so curious about what it could have been. Does anybody know?

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MUMMIBOO 13-02-2006 12:05
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i don't know but it looks eerriee!!!!

WillowTheWhisp 13-02-2006 12:15
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It looks like a very small ruined castle! It's all overgrown and brambly but we did get a bit closer and this is what the inside looks like. At one side on one of the curcular sections there are steps going up. It would be too risky to try climbing them though. You can just about see them in the photo. The ceiling in the central section is all vaulted and very impressive.

Doug 13-02-2006 12:30
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It’s a 19th century folly………….

Less 13-02-2006 12:58
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It’s a 19th century folly………….
Is that what they now call 21st century panopticans?:p

SPUGGIE J 13-02-2006 13:36
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Aint got a clue but with a bit of cash it might make a good home.

Madhatter 13-02-2006 15:11
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What it is, is a crime that such a building should be left to disintegrate in such a way. That building is amazing, beautiful, perfect in proportion, I wanna live in it.
Is there a big house near by, or in the grounds of an estate?

SPUGGIE J 13-02-2006 15:17
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Originally Posted by Madhatter
What it is, is a crime that such a building should be left to disintegrate in such a way. That building is amazing, beautiful, perfect in proportion, I wanna live in it.
Is there a big house near by, or in the grounds of an estate?

How much would you pay for it??????

West Ender 13-02-2006 15:18
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There's a similar building near here which has been bought and renovated with extensions and made into a home. It was a 19th century water tower, originally built to look like a castle. It has just the one tower, rather than 2, and I believe that now has a hot-tub on top! :cool:

SPUGGIE J 13-02-2006 15:23
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There's a similar building near here which has been bought and renovated with extensions and made into a home. It was a 19th century water tower, originally built to look like a castle. It has just the one tower, rather than 2, and I believe that now has a hot-tub on top! :cool:
Was it expensive?

staggeringman 13-02-2006 15:49
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a possible gatehouse too something bigger? there are some nice big places around there willow,will have to get the maps out and check....lol

WillowTheWhisp 13-02-2006 16:12
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It's right on the banks of the river. Not big enough to live in. There's basically just the one room which is all pillars and vaulted ceiling and then two very small tower shapes at either side. One has a staircase inside, around the edge of the wall which you can barely see in the picture and the other one hasn't. Yet the middle section doesn'tm have an upper floor as far as we could tell because it doesn't seem much higher outside than the ceiling inside. I suppose it could be a folly but it's a shame it's falling to bits whatever it is. Round the other side there's a blocked up doorway which would have led into that same vaulted ceiling "room".

garinda 13-02-2006 16:53
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Is it not marked on an ordinance survey map?


What is the Duracell bunny doing there as well?;)

panther 13-02-2006 18:56
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i wondered what they did with old house!:p
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yerself 13-02-2006 19:31
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Could be something to do with this: http://www.oldclitheroe.co.uk/page25.htm

West Ender 13-02-2006 19:55
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Was it expensive?
I don't know what they paid for it though it wouldn't be cheap, property in this area has become ridiculously expensive. It wasn't a ruin, just disused. They spent a lot of money modernising it, there was a TV programme about it as it's a listed building so special planning was needed etc., and it must be worth close on a million now.

mani 13-02-2006 20:50
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probably an outhouse so to speak to keep an eye out for any passing ppl

a place where lookouts cud b established and guards on sentry wud have soemwhere to sleep perhaps

from the small slits for windows - it does make me think it was most likely used for defensive purposes - easy to strike out from hard to fire in to

WillowTheWhisp 13-02-2006 21:11
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That's interesting yerself. I never knew there was a natural spring anywhre near here. I wonder why they have never made a commercial attraction of it. There is a sort of car park near that ruin whch says it is for customers only but we couldn't work out customers of what as there was nothig obviously on sale there although there is a farmhouse/manor looking sort of place which has mullioned windows on the manor house looking part. We should have photographed that too.

The rabbit is a temporary visitor.

Madhatter 13-02-2006 21:26
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So it could be a watch post for the river or a water tower could have been on the roof or it could just be a folly. Its a single story vaulted room, so it had to have a flat roof for a reason to go to that trouble, also the stair case by the look of it went to the roof because there is only one. Although there doesn't look like there are doors to the roof. If not why only one stair case, was one a single story and the other a two?. The stairs, if nearest the river, and if it is a watch tower, could have been so they could get to the top window.

WillowTheWhisp 13-02-2006 22:01
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Yes the tower with the stairs in is at the side nearest the river. The whole building was so precarious looking that I didn't really want to venture inside. Not to mention being attacked by brambles.


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