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
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Eyecatcher
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HEDGELEY EAST BOLTON NU 11 NW NU 11961531 Jenny's Lantern, 5/233 on hilltop 1.4 kilometre south- west of East Bolton Farm II
Ruin of eyecatcher incorporating shepherd's cottage, probably mid-C18. Squared stone. Rectangular plan. South wall shows door and window openings of single-storey cottage which had pent roof against taller flat-coped wall to rear; coping stepped down on left return. Right return fallen.
A prominent landscape feature, its form probably based on Crawley Tower (q.v.); associated with local legend of a shepherd's wife displaying a lantern to guide her husband home over the fells after his evenings in an Eglingham hostelry; one evening however he fell into a bog and drowned.
Listing NGR: NU1196515310
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