Featherstone Castle
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Featherstone Castle is a country house on the banks of the South Tyne , about three miles southwest of the small town of Haltwhistle in the English county of Northumberland . The large Gothic-style building is listed by English Heritage as a Grade I Historic Building.
Medieval origins
The first records from this area are from Roman times. In AD 122, the Romans built Hadrian's Wall , which runs about three miles north of Featherstone Castle.
The mansion , which stood on the site of the current country house in the 11th century, belonged to the Featherstonehaugh family. It played an important role in the border battles between the English and the Scots . Thomas de Featherstonehaugh had a three-story peel tower with a square floor plan added to the traditional country house, originally built in the 13th century . A report from 1541 describes the property as a residential tower in good condition, inhabited by a Thomas Featherstonehaugh.
Modern times
In the 17th century, Sir William Howard, the father of the 1st Earl of Carlisle , bought the property and had it rebuilt and expanded considerably. In 1711 Matthew Featherstonehaugh (1662–1762) bought the house back from the Earl of Carlisle. A report from 1715 stated "an old and well-built building". The family remained in possession of Featherstone Castle until Sir Matthew Fetherstonehaugh sold the property to the politician James Wallace around 1789. His son Thomas Wallace had various modifications carried out between 1812 and 1830. Lord Wallace then bequeathed the property to his nephew, Colonel James Hope (1807-1854), son of the Earl of Hopetoun , who then changed his name to "Hope-Wallace".
The many renovations led to a large crenellated complex country house with a rectangular floor plan. It has a courtyard in the middle and towers on every corner.
today
In 1950 the property was sold again and became the Hillbrow School private school . The school's name came from its original location near Rugby School in the Midlands. Hillbrow School was originally housed in Overslade House until the building was damaged by a land mine in 1940. In 1961 the school moved to a new building, Ridley Hall , and Featherstone Castle was converted into a conference, residential and event center for young people and students.
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- Featherstone Castle, Hall Bank . Images of England. English Heritage.
- Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3
- John Hodgson: A History of Northumberland . 1840. Part 2. Volume 3. P. 353.
- C. Michael Hogan, A. Burnham (Editors): Hadrian's Wall . The Megalithic Portal 2007.
- Stephen Johnson: Hadrian's Wall . Sterling Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-7134-8840-9
- Photos of Featherstone Castle. NorthOfTheTyne.co.uk.
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Coordinates: 54 ° 56 ′ 34.8 " N , 2 ° 30 ′ 36" W.