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The Strothers built a new manor house on the site in about 1666. When William Strother died in 1708 without a male heir the estate passed to William Kerr who married Blake’s heiress daughter. In 1776 their son John Strother Kerr sold the estate and house to
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interiors; some of the more important interiors following this style in the North of England. He included the Blake family crest – a martlet surmounting a
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The Manor of Fowberry was owned by the Fowberry family for over 400 years, and their 16th-century tower house incorporated the remains of an original
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in 1867. The Culley family, later Leather Culley, remained at Fowberry until they sold the estate in 1920.
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The Blakes sold the estate in 1807 to Matthew Culley (born 1778), son of the noted expert agriculturalist
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In the late 16th century Roger Fowberry mortgaged the estate to his neighbour William Strother of
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Blake remodelled and substantially enlarged the house including delightful
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Matthew and George Culley. Travel Journals and Letters 1765–1798
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Heritage Gateway: architectural description of listed building
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Northumberland
England

Fowberry Tower is located in Northumberland
Northumberland
55°33′29″N 1°56′24″W / 55.558°N 1.940°W / 55.558; -1.940
Grid reference
NU039293
Grade II* listed
River Till
Chatton
Northumberland
pele tower
Kirknewton
Sir Francis Blake
Strawberry Hill Gothic
cap of maintenance
Kelso
window tax
George Culley
High Sheriff of Northumberland





Heritage Gateway: architectural description of listed building
Historic England
"Fowberry Tower (1370883)"
National Heritage List for England

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