Bothal Castle Welbeck Estate Office and Attached Outbuildings Around Stable Yard is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Castle, outbuilding.

Bothal Castle Welbeck Estate Office and Attached Outbuildings Around Stable Yard

WRENN ID
plain-corner-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1986
Type
Castle, outbuilding
Address
Bothal Castle Welbeck Estate Office and Attached Outbuildings Around Stable Yard, Bothal Village, Ashington
OS grid reference
NZ 239 865
Coordinates
55.17254, -1.62527
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bothal Castle, located on the Welbeck Estate, includes an office and attached outbuildings around a stable yard, built around 1858 and incorporating some medieval walling. The structures are made of tooled stone with tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, topped with Welsh slate roofs. An embattled screen wall extends north from the west end of the 19th-century wing attached to the castle gatehouse, returning east and then south. Various outbuildings are situated against this wall, including a flat-roofed single-storey office next to the wing and an L-plan stable block at the north-west corner. A lower wall with arched coping connects a small gabled building to the east end of the stable. The property features boarded doors and double doors, as well as 1- and 2-light windows with small-paned casements.

Medieval masonry is visible on the western screen wall, and the stable yard continues the 'Yethouse Court' mentioned in 'The Booke of Bothoole Baronye' from 1576, where the Ogle tower was located at the north-west corner.

Local climate

Bothal Castle Welbeck Estate Office and Attached Outbuildings Around Stable Yard receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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