England · Still standing
Beaufront Castle
Beaufront Castle is a privately owned 19th-century castellated country house near Hexham in Northumberland, England. The present Gothic revival mansion was built between 1836 and 1841 to designs by John Dobson and incorporates parts of an earlier 17th-century house and an older pele tower. It is a Grade I listed building.
Its prime
1841
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1841
What Beaufront Castle looked like in its prime.
Long, horizontal ashlar mansion in a castellated Gothic-revival style set on a low wooded rise. The roofline is defined by a continuous crenellated parapet and several projecting tower or turret sections, including a taller central tower rising above the main block. Facades show regularly spaced vertical windows in rectangular bays and dressed pale stone. The house sits amid mixed deciduous trees and parkland, the mass of the building visible above the tree-line from a distance.
Its story
The story of Beaufront Castle.
The Pele Tower, the Carnaby Heiress and the Erringtons, 1415–1600s
A pele tower was recorded at Beaufront, at Sandhoe near Hexham in Northumberland, in 1415. Dorothy Carnaby, heiress to the estate in the sixteenth century, married Gilbert Errington, and it was the Erringtons who put up a new house at Beaufront in the seventeenth century.
John Dobson's Mansion for the Cuthberts, 1836–1969
The Cuthbert family bought the property early in the nineteenth century and between 1836 and 1841 built the present castellated Gothic revival mansion, designed by the architect John Dobson and incorporating parts of the seventeenth-century house. William Cuthbert was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1860. The house remains in private hands and has been a Grade I listed building since 1969.
Step inside
5 places to explore in 1841.
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Clans who held Beaufront Castle.
The families that held Beaufront Castle for a decade or more across its history, follow a name to its clan.
Carnaby
The Carnabys held Beaufront until the heiress Dorothy Carnaby married Gilbert Errington in the 16th century.
Errington
Held by the Erringtons from the 16th-century Carnaby marriage; they built a new house in the 17th century.
Cuthbert
Acquired by the Cuthbert family in the early 19th century; William Cuthbert was High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1860.
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