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Welton Hall, Horsley
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Welton Tower
In the civil parish of Horsley.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
The remains of a medieval manor house and tower house. They are located within a farm complex, but were originally on the street line at the eastern end of the medieval village of Welton. The house is dated 1614, but was originally a C13 or C14 hall house. It was altered in the C16, C17 and C19. The house is constructed from Roman stone and rubble with a Welsh slate roof. The tower house is of late C14 or early C15 date and was converted from the west wing of the earlier manor house. The tower, which is square in shape and measures 7m externally, stands three storeys high and is roofless.
This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 239462)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ06546759
PastScape number;
20435
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N10020
- Web site links
- Books
- Salter, Mike, 2002, Index and Amendments to Mike Salter's English Castles Books (Malvern) p4
Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing)
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p109
Emery, Anthony, 1996, Greater Medieval Houses Vol1 (Cambridge) p151
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p199
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p84, 86
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p344
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p347-8
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p170
Pevsner, N., 1957, The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p319
Bruce, J.C. 1947, Handbook to the Roman Wall (Newcastle) p63
Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles [1970 Reprint by Frank Graham] p224-6
Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1926, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol12 p211-12
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p22
- Journal Articles
- Hadcock, R.N., 1939, 'Map of Mediaeval Northum and Durham' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser4] Vol16 p181
1921-2, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne [ser3] Vol10 p98
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*The listed building
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of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.
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