Cockle Park Tower Explained

Cockle Park Tower is a Grade 1 listed building in the hamlet of Cockle Park, Northumberland, England, some 4miles to the north of Morpeth.

This three-storied tower-house was built in the 15th century as a hunting lodge and later extended by the addition of a domestic building. One end of the building has a pair of machiolated bartisans with a stretch of machicolation along the wallhead between them.^[1]

The tower was used as a students' hostel until the mid-1970s, at which time major structural problems became apparent. Newcastle University undertook major repair work in the early 21st century,^[2] as part of an overall plan for the development of their Cockle Park farm estate into the Centre for Renewable Energy from Land (CREEL).^[3]

External links

• Cockle Park Tower entry at the Gatehouse Gazetteer
• Article on the Tower in the journal Archaeology in Northumberland

Notes and References

1. Book: Fry . Plantagenet Somerset . The David & Charles Book of Castles . 1980 . David & Charles . Newton Abbot . 0-7153-7976-3 . 211.
2. Web site: MGM renovate historic 16th century pele tower. MGM Specialist Construction Services. 24 January 2022. 24 January 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220124205825/https://mgm.ltd.uk/mgm-renovate-historic-16th-century-pele-tower/. dead.
3. Web site: Bilsborrow. Paul. Centre for Renewable Energy from Land (CREEL). Newcastle University. 2 March 2016. PDF.