Jennys Lantern on Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West of East Bolton Farm is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Eyecatcher.
Jennys Lantern on Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West of East Bolton Farm
- WRENN ID
- final-truss-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Eyecatcher
- Address
- Jennys Lantern on Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West of East Bolton Farm, Hedgeley
- OS grid reference
- NU 119 153
- Coordinates
- 55.43154, -1.81249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Jenny's Lantern is a ruin of an eyecatcher that incorporates a shepherd's cottage, likely built in the mid-18th century. It is constructed from squared stone and has a rectangular plan. The south wall features door and window openings of a single-storey cottage, which originally had a pent roof against a taller flat-coped wall at the rear; the coping steps down on the left return. The right return has collapsed.
This structure is a prominent landscape feature, and its design is probably inspired by Crawley Tower. It is associated with a local legend about a shepherd's wife who displayed a lantern to guide her husband home over the fells after his evenings spent in an Eglingham pub; unfortunately, one evening he fell into a bog and drowned.
Local climate
Jennys Lantern on Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West of East Bolton Farm receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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