Healey Hall (Healey)
[NZ 00475787] Healey Hall. (1)
Robert Ormston (1789-1882) took down the old peel house and, partly on the old foundations, erected the present farmhouse. [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 century. (3)
Healey Hall, Grade II listed building. 1834. (4)
The bastle was built between 1550 and 1570 by Sir John Widdrington. Listed by Dodds. (5a)
Robert Ormston (1789-1882) took down the old peel house and, partly on the old foundations, erected the present farmhouse. [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 century. (3)
Healey Hall, Grade II listed building. 1834. (4)
The bastle was built between 1550 and 1570 by Sir John Widdrington. Listed by Dodds. (5a)
N9796
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1956; E Geary
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