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Howick Hall
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Turris de Howicke
In the civil parish of Longhoughton.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Country house built in 1782 to designs by William Newton on the site of a medieval tower which was demolished in 1780. The tower was mentioned in 1415 when it was the property of Emeric Hering. In 1715 the tower was described as "the seate of Hen. Gray, esq., a most magnificent freestone edifice in a square figure, flat roof'd, and embattled on ye top, a handsome court and gateway on the front, with good gardens, plantations" So presumably a tower house of some size and not a pele tower.
This site has been described as a;
Tower House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Nothing visible remains.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 237007)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU24781750
PastScape number;
8110
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N5632
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p121
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p114 [slight]
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p28
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p350
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p216-7
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p124
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
Bateson, Edward (ed), 1895, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol2 p337-8, 345
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p12, 16, 27
Hodgson, J.C., 1827. History of Northumberland, part 3 Vol1 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p28
- 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 p10
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Chandler, John, 1993, John Leland's Itinerary: travels in Tudor England (Sutton Publishing) p343
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*The listed building
may not be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site
of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.
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