More information : NZ 2814 8788 Hurst Castle (NR) (remains of) (NAT) (1)
The 'Castle' of Hirst still stood in Hodgson's time (circa 1916) and was incorporated in a farmhouse. There were two buildings of which very little is known, one may have been a tower or a pele and the other a castle. Tomlinson states that the tower was probably built by Ralph, 3rd Lord Ogle, who died in 1513 and the adjoining farm house may have been built by Thomas Errington, who died in 1629. The E wall of the farm house was surmounted by a narrow oblong turret and this was believed to be the only part with battlements. The S front was mainly Jacobean. (2-3)
No remains; site covered by modern development. (4)
According to Dodds, a tower was built for George Ogle, documented in a contract of 1536, and in 1549 he was charged to light a beacon on it when reivers were about. The tower was demolished in 1910. He also refers to the second tower (as authy.2) which Warburton attributed to one Johnson. Nothing is known of any Johnson owning or leasing property in this area.Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (5,6) |