Low Broadwood Hall

In the civil parish of Allendale.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).

Low Broadwood Hall is a group of C17 and early C18 buildings. The hall is built in C17 style but is dated 1716 over the doorway. An outbuilding is bastle-like but its walls are not as thick as in true bastles. Another building is said to have been a Quaker school. An older house once stood north-east of the hall and was demolished in the mid-C20. It had an inscribed stone over the door with the date 1690 and the initials H above J B. The old house seems to have been a rather grander building than the usual Allendale bastles and may be better described as a strong house.

This site has been described as a;
Bastle.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY833556

Modern Map from Good for landscape form and features	Modern Map from Good for general location
Air Photo from	1st edition OS Map from

Sources of information, references and further reading

PastScape number; 1387771

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N7308

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N7308
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p425
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Ryder, P.F., 1995. Towers and Bastles in Northumberland, Part 4 Tynedale District Vol1 p11-12