Dotland Park Farmhouse

Dotland Park Farmhouse is a hunting lodge dating from around 1500, originally built for the Priors of Hexham. The building underwent changes in the late 18th to early 19th century, including the addition of an outshut, which was later heightened and further altered in 1907. It is constructed of coursed roughly-squared stone with cut dressings and features a slate roof.

The south elevation has two storeys and four irregular bays. In the second bay, there is a doorway set within a late 19th-century wooden porch, alongside the remains of three earlier arched doorways. The windows are 16-pane sashes with raised tooled-and-margined surrounds, with one window on the first floor in bay three being a 1907 addition. The building has coped gables, a stepped left end stack, and a right end stack that has been rebuilt on an old base. The left side of the building shows several blocked windows, including a cinquefoil-headed light featuring the arms of Prior Smithson in the spandrels. The right side has a blocked chamfered light in the attic.

Inside, the rear wall of the original house contains two windows with two cinquefoil-headed lights under square heads, also displaying the arms of Prior Smithson. The roof has six bays with tie-beam trusses, curved principals, collars, and one level of purlins and ridge.

The heraldry indicates that the hunting lodge was likely built by Thomas Smithson, who was prior from 1491 to 1524, although some earlier medieval fabric may be present. In 1654, the building served as a Baptist meeting house, making it one of the earliest in the North of England.