Harehaugh Old Farm (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Harecleugh; Hareclough; Hare Cewgh; hare clewgh

In the civil parish of Harbottle.
In the historic county of Northumberland.
Modern Authority of Northumberland.
1974 county of Northumberland.
Medieval County of Northumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NY97339989
Latitude 55.29316° Longitude -2.04356°

Harehaugh Old Farm has been described as a certain Bastle, and also as a Pele Tower but is rejected as such.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*.

Description

House. Early C17. Roughly-coursed stone. Roofless. 2 storeys. Scattered fenestration: 3 bays. Tudor-arched doorway to right in multi-moulded square- headed surround. Left of the door a small square double-chamfered window. Left of this, a 2-light window now lost mullion and with casement, under hoodmould. To left a door, formerly a one-light double-chamfered window under hoodmould.
On the 1st floor 3 sash windows. Ruinous at time of survey and interior filled with rubble of collapsed roof making inspection impossible. (Listed Building Report)

Harehaugh - The border commissioners of 1541 reported that:-
"At a place called the hareclewgh one Rog' Hangingshawes hath lately buylded upon his owne Inhyerytance a strong pele house of stone in a convenyent place for resystence of the Incourse of theves of Ryddesdayle, and he ys not able in defaulte of substance to p'forme and fynyshe the same" (Bates 1891).
D D Dixon suggested (Dixon 1903) that this unfinished tower was Woodhouses pele, (NT 90 SE 2) but there seems to be no ground for the identification beyond the fact that Woodhouses is not mentioned in 1541, and that there is now no trace of the tower at Harehaugh or Harecleugh. It seems more probable that the tower was never finished and that all trace of it has disappeared (Dodds 1940).
NY 97339989. The old farmhouse of Harehaugh, now used as an outbuilding, is a substantial structure of two storeys, measuring 16.5m x 6.0m, whichfrom two doorways in the E front is of late 16th early 17th century date. Its N wall now an internal division, is 1.7.m thick and its E wall is 1.0m thick. The thickness of the other walls could not be determined.
It seems probable that the remains of the unfinished 'Hareclewgh' pele of 1541 were incorporated in this later Tudor building (F1 DS 26-FEB-71).
The pele tower, unfinished in 1541, was never completed and was later converted into a small house which is now a ruin in the farmyard at Harecleugh (Dodds 1999). (PastScape)

Comments

The survey of 1541 recorded that Roger Hangingshaw had recently built a strong pele house (a bastle not a chamber tower as suggested by Dodds 1999), but not finished, of stone to resist thieves from Redesdale. This may be the old farmhouse now used as an outbuilding. It is of two storeys. Constructed in roughly-coursed stone with two storeys and scattered fenestration. In 1971 the building was in use as an outbuilding but by 1986 the structure was ruinous and filled with rubble from the collapsed roof.

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1041289
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 19567.
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) N9702.

Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 187
  Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 114 (slight)
  Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p. 187
  Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London: HMSO)
  Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p. 114
  Dodds, M.H. 1940, A History of Northumberland Vol. 15 (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p. 471
  Dixon, D.D., 1903, Upper Coquetdale Northumberland: Its History, Traditions, Folk-lore and Scenery (Newcastle-upon Tyne: Robert Redpath) p. 288 online copy
  Bates, C.J., 1891, Border Holds of Northumberland (London and Newcastle: Andrew Reid) p. 45 (Also published as the whole of volume 14 (series 2) of Archaeologia Aeliana view online)
Periodical Articles
- Bates, C.J., 1891, 'Border Holds of Northumberland' Archaeologia Aeliana (ser2) Vol. 14 p. 45 online copy
Primary (Medieval documents or transcriptions of such documents - This section is far from complete and the secondary sources should be consulted for full references.)
- 1541, View of the Castles, Towers, Barmekyns and Fortresses of the Frontier of the East and Middle Marches Survey of the East and Middle Marches

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