Kirkheaton Manor House

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

House incorporates C16 bastle and has later additions dating to C17, C18 and C20. It was probably built for Cuthbert Heron of Kirkheaton at the end of C16 and was lived in until 1900. For the next 30 years it lay empty and became derelict, but was restored by 1931. The north wall and end walls of the main part of the building have walls about 1m wide and are probably the remains of the original defensible building or bastle. There may also have been a turret or possibly a full size tower. In C17 the building was altered and many features of this period still survive. An extension was built in the mid-C18 as well as some alterations to the main building. C20 restoration heightened many of the rooms in the main building and enlarged the windows.

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

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ01837737

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; 20778

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N10188

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N10188
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p278
    King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p359
    Pevsner, N., 1957, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p201
    Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p18
• Journal Articles
  • Carter, J.F., 1931-2. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [ser4] Vol5 p119-24
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Ryder, P.F., 1995. Towers and Bastles in Northumberland, Part 3 Castle Morpeth District p20-3