BARMOOR CASTLE

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Country house largely built in 1801 by Patterson of Edinburgh, but incorporating earlier masonry, building continued throughout the 19th century. The house is of ashlar with a Lakeland slate roof. The building is in castellated Tudor style. The main block is of three storeys, with three bays, and has a projecting central tower porch with diagonal corners and a single storey bow-fronted entrance between.The banquetting wing is of two storeys, with seven bays, and has a central three-bay shallow bow window and round corner towers. The list description describes the banquetting wing as roofless and decaying.

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[NT 99723988] Barmoor Castle [T.I.] (1)

The house was begun in 1801, but it is said that old walls of a tower-house were made use of and a Jacobean porch was re-used. (2)

Barmoor Castle shows no external traces of antiquity, although the porch on the east side is built of re-used masonry as described above. Mr. Sitwell, the owner, thinks that the tower-walls are incorporated internally. (3)

Barmoor Castle, building of classical character in castellated Tudor dress, built mainly in 1801 to the designs of Patterson of Edinburgh but incorporating Medieval, 16th and 17th century masonry. Grade 2*. (4,5)

In 1341, Thomas Muschamp obtained a licence to build a crenelated tower, but it faied to keep out raiders in 1367. In 1514, it was serviceable and capable of lodging 30 horsemen, but by 1541 was ruinous. In 1801 a mansion grew around the tower, but by the 1980s this was ruinous. Now being renovated with the intention of turning it into holidat flats. (6)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 1:2500 1964

( 2) by Nikolaus Pevsner 1957 Northumberland

The buildings of England Page(s)81

( 3) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DK 02-FEB-67

( 4) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

DOE (HHR) Berwick-upon-Tweed Northum 3.3.79 Corrigenda

(5) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

District of Berwick Upon Tweed, 15/05/1986 Page(s)47

(6) Dodds, JF 1999 Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland

Page(s)48-9

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