It is built on high ground 600 feet above sea level about four miles north of Bolton.

Inside the building, this Tudor architecture can be seen, including part of the cruck structure along with exposed and restored sections of the wattle and daub and lath and plaster wall panelling.

The new upper storey was built in ashlar stone separated from the old rubble walling by a moulded string course.

It passed to his descendants, the Bland, Green and Frere families who leased it to a succession of tenant farmers.

In 1903 the tower was bought by Sir Lees Knowles, 1st Baronet, MP for Salford West, for £3,875.

[5] After local government re-organisation in 1974, Turton was split, and the tower became part of the new Borough of Blackburn and was administered by Lancashire County Museums Service.