Healey Hall |
Hob Uid: 20298 | |
Location : Northumberland Healey
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Grid Ref : NZ0047057870 |
Summary : A modern house, possibly standing on the site of a late 16th century bastle. The previous house on this site is depicted in an illustration of 1819, but the drawing is too small to allow the identification of any architectural features related to the bastle. |
More information : (NZ 00475787) Healey Hall (T.I.) (1)
Robert Ormston (1789-1882) took down the old peel house and partly on the old foundations erected the present house. (Illustration of HEALEY HOUSE about 1819 shows an L-shaped building. One wing is of two stories and the other part apparently of two stories and an attic. The drawing is too small for architectural features to be recognised but in one place the wall of the larger wing appears to incorporate a stepped buttress. On the exposed gable of this larger wing is a small battlemented turret carried either on corbels or forming a small machicolated projection. (2)
The present hall is modern with no visible traces of the "peel". Local enquiries revealed no traditions of a tower or the existence of any significant field names. There is no mention of a tower in the Border Surveys of 1415 and 1542. Possibly the 'peel' was the type of fortified house known as a Bastle of which there are many in NORTHUMBERLAND. They probably date from the latter part of the 16th cent. (3)
The bastle was built between 1550 and 1570 by Sir John Widdrington. Listed by Dodds. (4) |