MONUMENT NO. 5942

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Possible site of a tower house and barmkin, built before 1415, and ruinous in 1541.

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Ilderton Tower is mentioned in a list of 1415, and in 1541, is described as'with a strong barmkin'. In 1715 it was in ruins. Its site is not certainly known, but the remains may be built into the present hall. [Maclauchan's plan shows pecked outline adjoining the SW corner of the farmhouse at NU01662177]. (1-3)

The only possible remains of the tower are fragments of walling and a buttress incorporated in the garden wall in the position noted by Maclauchan. No trace of the barmkin survives. (4)

The buttress at NU0167421779 is 1.0m square and 3.5m high forming part of a wall extending from the southern corner of the
farmhouse. The other parts of the wall appear too thin to have been part of a tower. No other possible remains could be found in the area. No proof was found that this buttress was part of the original Ilderton Tower.
No survey action. (5)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (6,7)

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( 1) edited by Madeleine Hope Dodds 1935 A history of Northumberland, volume fourteen : the parishes of Alnham, Chatton, Chillingham, Eglingham, Ilderton, Ingram and Whittingham, the chapelries of Lowick and Doddington

A history of Northumberland15 vols (1893-1940) vol.14 Page(s)266

( 2) Archaeologia Aeliana : or miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity

C.J.Bates 14, 1891 Page(s)17 42

( 3) General reference

Eastern Branch of Watling Street 1864, Sheet 3, Scale 1/31,680. (H Maclauchan)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 ASP 25-NOV-55

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F2 DSL 09-SEP-76

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

Page(s)110-1

(7) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)350

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