List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: COUPLAND CASTLE
List Entry Number: 1042343
Location
COUPLAND CASTLE
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Northumberland
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Ewart
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 21-Sep-1951
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 237609
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History
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Details
NT 93 SW EWART COUPLAND
3/33 Coupland Castle
21/9/51
GV I
Country house. C16, C17, C18 and 1820-25. Random rubble including massive
porphyry blocks, partly roughcast. Ashlar dressings and Scottish slate roofs.
Towerhouse, built after 1584, with irregular later additions.
Towerhouse: 4 storeys. 47 ft. x 29 ft. C19 12-pane sashes in moulded surrounds.
Projecting parapet on original rounded corbels. C19 battlements. Gabled roof
behind parapet with original stone-flagged walkway around.
Slightly later extension to tower on left, forming T-plan for these early parts.
Similar windows. Continuous moulded corbel table below parapet. Pyramidal
roof and circular stair turret.
2-storey, 3-bay house of c.1820-25 attached to left. Central battlemented porch
tower with Tudor-arched entrance and oriel window above on moulded corbels.
Plaster rib vault in porch. 2-storey canted bay window to right and 3-light
mullioned windows to left. Battlemented parapet and false gable behind porch.
Left return has work of 1820-25 on right and 3-bay C18 house to left with 12-pane
sash windows in raised surrounds.
Rear facade irregular.
Interior: Tower has vaulted basement, subdivided later into 2 rooms. Original
narrow stone newel stair starts from 1st floor in corbelled-out semicircular
projection now partly inside later addition to tower, which also contains a
broader and later stone newel stair from ground to 1st floor. Base of this
stair has round-arched doorway with roll-moulded surround, probably early C17.
Similar doorway into kitchen range to rear. Base of original tower has late
C17 or early C18 doorway with bolection-moulded surround. On 1st floor of
tower a large fireplace dated GW 1619 MW for George and Mary Wallis. The
initials set in decorative recessed panels. Tudor-arched lintel. C19 section
has contemporary decoration including fine doors, cornices with Greek key
pattern, cantilevered stair with wrought-iron balustrade. Several early C19
fireplaces and one late C18 wood fireplace with Corinthian columns and relief
carving in lintel, brought from elsewhere.
Hist. of Northumberland Vol. VII.
A.A. New Series XXV 1904 by Rev. Culley.
Listing NGR: NT9353431156
Selected Sources
Books and journals'Archaeologia Aeliana' in Archaeologia Aeliana, , Vol. 25, (1904)
Crawford Hodgson, J, 'A History of Northumberland' in The Parish of Edlingham with the Chapelry of Bolton The Parish of Felton with the Chapelery of Framlingham The Chapelry or Parish of Brinkburn, , Vol. 7, (1904)
Map
National Grid Reference: NT 93534 31156
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