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Weetwood Hall, Chatton
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Wetewood
In the civil parish of Chatton.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Weetwood Hall was originally a fortified tower house, built as a defence against the Scots. It was first mentioned in 1541, though its earliest parts may date as early as C13 or C14. It was then extensively altered in C18. The earliest part of the building is L-shaped in plan and has thick walls. When the house was altered a second wing was added. Detailed architectual survey done by Peter Ryder in 1993. Presumably this is the "handsome house ... Bellonging to Lanc. Ord, esq." noted in 1715
This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 2 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 237503)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU01662973
PastScape number;
5623
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N3298
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p115 [slight]
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p32
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p344
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p347
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p169
Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1935, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol14 p250
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p39
Hodgson, J.C., 1828, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) pt3 Vol2 p192
- Journal Articles
- Hodgson, J.C., 1916, 'List of Ruined Towers, Chapels, etc., in Northumberland; compiled about 1715 by John Warburton, Somerset Herald, aided by John Horsley' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser3] Vol13 p6
- 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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