Description

HUMSHAUGH HAUGHTON
NY 97 SW
2/233 Gateway 60 metres
west of Haughton
Castle, with attached
walls and outbuildings

GV II

Gateway with attached walls and outbuildings, 1816 with later C19 alterations.
Rubble with tooled-and-margined dressings; Welsh slate roofs. Castellated
Gothic style. Gateway at west end of Castle precinct has chamfered segmental-
pointed arch with projecting taller square tower on south and corbelled-out
turret on north. Slit windows, except for two 3-light mullioned windows on
north of tower; embattled parapets.

To north-east a tall enclosure wall with embattled coping, stepped up and down
slope,runs east, south and east again to end in square tower close to north-
east corner of Castle (q.v.); blind slits and square-headed well recess in
first part.

To south-east a similar wall joins west wing of Castle; pent outbuildings on
north have 3 boarded doors and several small windows.

To south-west tall garden wall with flat coping, ramped up beyond section with
boarded door, continues for 100 metres alongside road.

Listing NGR: NY9191472924

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26449191

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