Harbottle Castle is a Grade I listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1953. A C13 Castle.
Harbottle Castle
- WRENN ID
- proud-screen-barley
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1953
- Type
- Castle
- OS grid reference
- NT 932 047
- Coordinates
- 55.33717, -2.10828
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harbottle Castle is a ruined castle that began construction after 1157, was reconstructed in stone in the 13th century, and extensively rebuilt in 1541. It features the finest medieval earthwork in the county, characterized by ruined walls made of squared stone.
The ruins include a curtain wall approximately 40 yards long and 15 feet high, with the remains of an angle tower at the north end. This wall separated the bailey from an unfortified courtyard beyond. On the motte, there are extensive fragments of a shell keep, which includes one deeply-splayed 16th-century gun loop still in place. Additionally, two smaller but still impressive fragments of the curtain wall remain.
The site is recognized as a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is documented in Northumberland County History, Volume 15.
Local climate
Harbottle Castle receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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