Old Cottage And Adjacent Ruin is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. Cottage.
Old Cottage And Adjacent Ruin
- WRENN ID
- winding-joist-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
NZ 18 NW NZ 14978613 lO/ll5 20.10.69
MELDON NEWTON UNDERWOOD Old cottage and adjacent ruin(previously listed as Newton Underwood Tower)
II
Ruins probably medieval; cottage C18. Squared stone; pantile roof. Cottage 2 low storeys, 3 bays, irregular. Right-of-centre vertical-panelled door flanked by Yorkshire sashes, that to left having lost its carpentry as have 3 small windows directly beneath the eaves. Brick end stacks. To left outbuilding has cart entrance and door with timber lintels. To right, slightly set forward, ruined wall 2m. thick with large semicircular arch; roughly-shaped voussoirs. Left and right returns of cottage and outbuilding show reverse- stepped gables. Rear elevation; outshut to cottage, to left ruined wall of large rectangular blocks.
The ruined structure, formerly known as the 'Old Walls' does not appear to have been a conventional tower house. Hodgson wrote (Part II, Vol II, 72) that c.1800 there were two similar arches adjoining .... on the east.
Listing NGR: NZ147286136
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