Coupland Castle
Coupland Castle is in the village of Coupland , 6.5 km north-west of the small town of Wooler in the English county of Northumberland . English Heritage has listed it as a Grade I Historic Building.
It is more of a residential tower than a castle. It was probably built towards the end of the 16th century, sometime after 1590. The tower has three full floors and an attic as well as a protruding tourelle on the south wall. Between the tower and the tourelle there is a small stone door cheek, on which the year 1594 is engraved.
A date stone above the open chimney in the tower is engraved with GW 1615 MW . It is believed to be a reminder of the owners this year, George and Mary Wallis . Over the centuries, the castle was added to and restored in the 19th century. In 1820 the residential tower was expanded to include a two-story house with three yokes adjoining the tower.
The Bates family owned the property in the 18th century. Elizabeth Bates , heiress of the estate, married Matthew Calley (* 1731), the well-known agricultural scientist , in 1783 . In 1869 another Matthew Culley lived in the house, who was the High Sheriff of Northumberland that year. The Culleys sold the property in 1923.
The current owner Robin Jell bought the property in 1979 and lives there with his second wife Fiona .
literature
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles , David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Coupland Castle . Heritage Gateway. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
- ↑ a b Coupland Castle (Ewart) . Keys to the past. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 29, 2016.
- ^ Anne Orde (editor): Matthew and George Culley. Travel Journals and Letters, 1765-1798 . 2002.
Coordinates: 55 ° 34 '26.4 " N , 2 ° 6' 10.8" W.