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Stanton Old Hall, Netherwitton
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; Turris de Stranton
In the civil parish of Netherwitton.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Late C16 house, incorporating some medieval fabric. The house was refenestrated in the mid C17 and the south end remodelled circa 1700. Thicker walls and a change in masonry suggest the northern part of the main range was originally a two storeyed structure, heightened in C16. This earlier section may represent the tower recorded on this site in a survey of 1415. The building was in use as a blacksmiths in 1902 and had previously served as the parish workhouse.
This site has been described as a;
Pele Tower.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Possible.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 2 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 238383)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NZ13138958
PastScape number;
23301
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N11040
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p246-7
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p96
Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge) p200 [slight]
Pevsner, N. et al, 1992. The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London) p578
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p70
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p341
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p319-21
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p159
Tomlinson, W.W. 1902. Comprehensive Guide to Northumberland (Newcastle) p273
Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p16
Hodgson, J.C., 1832, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) pt2 Vol2 p110
- Journal Articles
- Hadcock, R.N., 1939, 'Map of Mediaeval Northum and Durham' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser4] Vol16 p176
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 p12
1893-4, 'Report of Field Meeting' Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle [ser2] Vol6 p207
- Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents
- This section is far from complete and the secondary
sources should be consulted for full references.)
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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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