THE owners of a 100 year-old landmark building have been ordered to reinstate a bell tower after removing it without permission.
Pendle Council’s planning chiefs said the bell tower was removed from Trawden Hall, in Foulds Road, more than a year ago.
The action was taken by builders who were carrying out work at the site.
Now the local authority is serving a listed building enforcement notice on the owners, telling them to reinstate the tower or risk prosecution.
The first Trawden Hall was built in 1540 and was the home of the Foulds family for nearly four hundred years.
There have been three houses on the site, with the most recent one being built in 1900 by John Hopkinson, who was a mill owner.
If the bell tower is not reinstated in accordance with the notice, a prosecution could be brought by Pendle Council.
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