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Bellister Castle today

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Bellister Castle

Bellister Castle is a National Trust-owned castellated 19th-century mansion attached to the ruinous remains of a 14th-century tower house, located near Haltwhistle in Northumberland, England. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building. The property is a private residence and not open to the public, though it can be seen from nearby public footpaths.

Photograph via Wikimedia Commons

Its prime

1826

Today

Partial ruin

As it stood in 1826

The shape it held in its prime.

A long, three-storey castellated east façade with a continuous battlemented parapet defines the main silhouette, its regular vertical rows of windows punctuating the stone face. At the western end a medieval tower house adjoins the mansion as a distinct vertical mass. The whole complex stands on a low mound surrounded by woodland and public footpaths; roofline is dominated by crenellation on the east front and the vertical profile of the attached tower. At the prime both house and tower are intact.

Step inside

6 places to explore in 1826.

The record describes 6 distinct spots at Bellister Castle — including 1 interior: interior of the medieval tower. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and walk through every one — more scenes means more photos, more angles and more rooms of the immersive experience.

Approach from the adjacent woodland footpathEast front (principal façade)Base of the moundExterior of the medieval tower (west end)Interior of the medieval towerBattlemented parapet (parapet walk) of the east front

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