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© Mr Paul Marshall
IoE Number:
238001
Location:
REMAINS OF HEATON CASTLE CIRCA 30 YARDS NORTH WEST OF FARMHOUSE,
CORNHILL ON TWEED, BERWICK UPON TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND
Photographer:
Mr Paul Marshall
Date Photographed:
19 June 2005
Date listed:
22 December 1969
Date of last amendment:
22 December 1969
Grade
II*
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CORNHILL-ON-TWEED CASTLE HEATON
NT 94 SW
5/34 Remains of Heaton
Castle c.30 yards
22.12.69 north-west of
Farmhouse
II*
Vaulted defensible building. Late medieval. Squared stone and random rubble,
Welsh slate roof. c.70 ft. by 25 ft. 2 storeys.
Long west side has stone steps to lst-floor doorway; some of the steps are
worn, others renewed, but the wall beneath them is old. Under the steps a
C16 or C17 doorway with alternating-block surround and rounded arrises. Left
of the steps a projection c.8 ft. outside the line of the wall. This has a
chamfered plinth and medieval masonry. It appears to be solid. Left of this
a further section, still projecting but not so far, also has a chamfered
plinth and a window with a steeply-sloping sill. The left section has a
later window and an original slit window. On 1st floor C19 windows in old
masonry.
On east side two buttresses with offsets and 2 blocked slit windows. 1st
floor is rebuilt on this side.
Interior has a high round tunnel vault rising from c.3 ft. above ground.
The walls are c. 3 ft. 6 inches thick normally and much thicker where there
are projections. The south gable has been largely rebuilt.