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Hesleyside Tower
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Heslesyde
In the civil parish of Bellingham.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Country house, originally incorporating an earlier house and a pele tower, probably built in the early C14, documented in 1537 and 1541. A house was attached to the east side of this tower in C17. The house was rebuilt in 1719, but the core of the earlier house is thought to survive within the present building. Additions to the house include the east front which was built in 1796. Alterations were carried out in the late C18, the mid C19 and C20. The building is constructed of ashlar with Lakeland slate roofs and is a courtyard house of three storeys. The pele tower was pulled down in the early C19 and the material used to build a stable. The stables have since been demolished in turn.
This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry footings remains.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 239402)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NY81618372
PastScape number;
17105
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N7973
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p302-4
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p67
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p11, 42
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p349
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p200-2
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p118
Pevsner, N., 1957. The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London) p170
Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1940, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol15 p252-4
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p48
Tomlinson, W.W., 1888, Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p219
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- 1541 Survey of the East and Middle Marches [Click here]
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