Turton Tower is a manor house in Chapeltown in North Turton, Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a Grade I listed building.

A beautiful, grade 1 listed, 600-year-old Tudor Manor House with Victorian additions. Nestling in its own tranquil, woodland setting, Turton Tower is the perfect setting for your unique wedding ceremony.

Turton Tower is a unique historic house, set in extensive gardens and woodlands, that has been evolving over the last 600 years. From a medieval stone tower house built in the 1400s, the alterations and adaptations to the building and the interior have suited the needs and tastes of those who have lived here over the centuries.

The Tower at Turton has been described as a Pele tower or a tower house, but it is as likely to have been built to offer protection for the Orrells from the de Torbocs rather than from raiders from across the border.

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Turton Tower is a manor house in Chapeltown in North Turton, Borough of Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, England. It is a scheduled ancient monument and a grade I listed building. It was built in the late Middle Ages as a two-storey stone pele tower which was altered and enlarged mainly in late 16th century.

Surrounded by ancient trees, rolling lawns and high stone walls, Turton Tower is a Lancashire manor house built in the 1400s, now a historical landmark.

Turton Tower is a house of modest scale but with a complex building history. For most of its life the Tower has been a private house; the stone tower was the earliest part of the building built in the mid-fifteenth century by the Orrells, a gentry family.