The Gatehouse website record for Hudswell Tower

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Culloden Tower; Cumberland Temple

In the civil parish of Richmond. In the historic county of Yorkshire North Riding (Modern Authority of North Yorkshire, 1974 county of North Yorkshire).

Banqueting house, built by John Yorke in 1746, possibly to the designs of Daniel Garrett. It is of two storeys, octagonal in plan and constructed of ashlar. It stands on, or close to, the site of Hudswell Tower or Peel, which was built before 1354 but demolished by the 1730s. Otherwise known as the Culloden Tower, built circa 1746 to commemorate that battle, on the site of an earlier pele tower, of which the rectangular base in rubble may be part. This now forms an undercroft, used as a barn with a cellar below. Above is a two-storeyed tower in ashlar, octagonal, and joined to the rectangular base by broaches. Purchased by the Landmark Trust in 1981 and restored by them. Also formerly known as the Cumberland Temple, or The Temple. Originally a banqueting house built by John Yorke I in 1746 possibly to the designs of Daniel Garrett and stands on, or close to the site of Hudswell Tower or Peel, dated before 1354 but demolished by the 1730s. Clarkson is the authority for Culloden Tower being built on the remains of Hudswell Tower but recent research has failed to find any further evidence to corroborate this.(PastScape)
PastScape cite Clarkson without a page number and I can not find anything about the peel tower in Clarkson myself.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ16710073

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This site's English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number is 21658
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