Haughton Castle
Haughton Castle is a country house north of the village of Humshaugh on the west bank of the North Tyne . It is about 10 km north of Hexham in the English county of Northumberland .
The house was originally built as a residential tower in the 13th century and was then expanded and fortified in the 14th century. The house then belonged to Gerald Widdrington and, although it was still owned by the Widdringtons in the early 14th century, the Swinburns lived in it.
By the 16th century the house fell into disrepair and was also attacked by Border Reivers . A report from 1541 mentions that the roofs and floors "fell into disrepair and disappeared".
The Smith family bought the property around 1640, but in 1715 another report still describes the house as a ruin.
From 1816 to 1845, the Smiths had major renovations carried out, ultimately by the architect John Dobson , to transform the ruins into a large country house. The Crawshaw family came into possession of the house in 1862 and had a west wing built by Anthony Salvin in 1876 . In 1888 the Cruddas family bought the property.
Part of the country house served as a hospital during World War II .
What was once an elongated residential tower is now one of the best-preserved traditional houses in the north of England. Haughton Castle has been listed as a Grade I Historic Building by English Heritage and is currently inhabited by the Braithwaite family.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Plantagenet Somerset Fry: The David & Charles Book of Castles . David & Charles, Newton Abbott 1980. ISBN 0-7153-7976-3 .
- ↑ a b c d Haughton Castle, Humshaugh . Gatehouse Gazetteer. Retrieved May 12, 2016.
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Coordinates: 55 ° 3 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 2 ° 7 ′ 47.6 ″ W.