England · Partial ruin
Barmoor Castle
Barmoor Castle is a privately owned 19th-century castellated country house in Northumberland, built in 1801 on the site of an earlier medieval tower house and later altered c.1892. It is a Grade II* listed building and incorporates surviving stonework from the older house; by the 21st century the fabric was recorded as decaying and at risk.
First raised
1801
Its prime
1892
Today
Partial ruin
As it stood in 1892
What Barmoor Castle looked like in its prime.
A substantial early-19th-century castellated Gothic Revival country house of masonry that incorporates fragments of earlier stonework, presenting an irregular, asymmetrical silhouette of linked wings and battlemented parapets. The roofline is varied and broken by multiple ranges and chimneys; elevations show dressed ashlar and coursed stone with 19th-century Gothic detailing. The house sits within extensive Northumberland parkland on a working estate of some 200 acres; at its prime the building appears complete and well maintained.
Its story
The story of Barmoor Castle.
After the Norman Conquest the manor of Barmoor was granted to the Muschamp family, who built a tower house on the site; Edward III granted a licence to crenellate on 17 May 1341. Repairs and improvements were carried out in 1584, but the Muschamps fell into financial difficulty, and after George Muschamp's death in 1649 the estate was sold to William Carr of Etal to satisfy creditors.
The estate changed hands several times after 1702 until Francis Hurt Sitwell acquired it by inheritance in 1791. The present castellated house was built in 1801 on the ancient site, incorporating stonework from the older house, and altered around 1892; it is Grade II* listed. The Lamb family bought the house and 200 acres in the 1980s to run a caravan and holiday park, but by 2008 the decaying building stood on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk Register.
Step inside
4 places to explore in 1892.
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Clans who held Barmoor Castle.
The families that held Barmoor Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Muschamp
Granted the manor after the Norman Conquest; held until the estate's forced sale in 1649.
Bought by William Carr of Etal in 1649; the estate changed hands after 1702.
Sitwell
Acquired by inheritance by Francis Hurt Sitwell in 1791.
