Togston House

Togston House is a house, with a probable core dating from the 17th century, extended in the early 18th and 19th centuries. It is built of rendered and pebbledashed walls with purple and blue slate roofs. The building has an irregular plan. The south elevation is in two parts. The left section is two storeys high and has two plus three bays. The three-bay part features a central, early 20th-century canted bay with a French window, along with plain sash windows. It has coped gables resting on moulded kneelers, and end and ridge stacks. A single-storey, three-bay right section has four-pane and two-pane sashes. An arched ashlar panel between the windows bears a crest, the motto "LABOR OMNIA VINCIT" (Latin for "Labour conquers all things"), and the names "James and Jane Dand, Morwick Hall." The left return shows a canted oriel of the late 19th or early 20th century, with two small attic windows. To the left is a three-storey tower built in the late 19th century, featuring a doorway and paired two-pane casements. A plaque built into the wall, low down on the left, reads "ZEPPELIN BOMB HANDLE 2-3 APRIL 1916 J.U.M.", with an attached handle that is now broken. The rear elevation shows two projecting wings with gable coping and kneelers of the late 17th/early 18th century style, along with various sash and casement windows.

The interior was only partially inspected. A ground-floor room on the western side of the front range has early 18th-century-style panelling. There is also an open-well, closed-string staircase with turned balusters and square newels.

The house was owned by the Cook family in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Northumberland County History, Volume V, page 336, mentions a 1684 datestone with the initials of John and Anne Cook, although this datestone has not been seen.