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

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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.

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