Coupland Castle

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as; Coupland Millfield; Copeland; Cowpland

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

Although known as a castle, this is a tower house, probably built sometime after 1584. It has been added to over the years and was restored in C19. The tower has three storeys with an attic on top and a small projecting tower carried up the south wall. The entrance door has a date of 1594 inscribed on one side and leads into a barrel vaulted room, or basement, now divided into two. A newel, or spiral staircase leads to the upper floors. The attic roof seems to be original and is an unusual and interesting structure. The tower is a good example of a tower house and is very much in the Scottish tradition.

This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.

The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NT93543115

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; 3889

County Sites and Monuments Record number; N2018

• Web site links
  • http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N2018
• Books
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p69-71
    Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p39
    Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p181
    Jackson, M.J.,1992, Castles of Northumbria (Carlise) p49-50
    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 p331
    Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p216
    Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p121-2
    Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p88
    Pevsner, N., 1957. The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London) p133-4
    Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles [1970 Reprint by Frank Graham] p81-2
    Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
    Vickers, Kenneth H. (ed), 1922, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol11 p227-9
    Tomlinson, W.W., 1897, Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p511
    Mackenzie, J.D., 1897, Castles of England (Heinemann) Vol2 p376-7
    Hodgson, J. and Laird, F., 1813, Beauties of England and Wales; Northumberland Vol12 p219
• 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 p11
    Culley, M., 1904, Archaeologia Aeliana [ser2] Vol25 p168-80
    1890, The Monthly Chronicle; North Country Lore and Legend p201-2
    1822, Gentlemans Magazine Vol92 p17-20, 114-6
• Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
  • Ryder, P.F., 1995. Towers and Bastles in Northumberland Part 2 Berwick district p16-17