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Ogle Castle
Ogle Castle is a former fortified manor house at Ogle, near Whalton in Northumberland. The present building largely dates from post-1660 rebuilding but retains a medieval tower house and the projecting latrine, and traces of a double moat remain around the site.
Its prime
1660
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 1660
What Ogle Castle looked like in its prime.
Long two-storey stone manor with a steep gabled end to the left and an extended rectangular range to the right, built of pale grey-buff dressed and rubble masonry with a stone-slate roof and tall rectangular chimneys. Regular mullioned windows puncture the façade; ivy climbs parts of the walls. A medieval tower-house massing survives as a compact, taller block with a corbelled projecting garderobe. Foreground formal lawn, gravel path and clipped yew topiary approach the south front.
Its story
The story of Ogle Castle.
A Border Manor and its Scottish Prisoner, 1066–1346
After the Norman Conquest of 1066, Humphrey de Hoggell was granted rights over the manor of Ogle, near Whalton in Northumberland. Northumberland was then a border county, and in 1341 Sir Robert Ogle was allowed a licence to crenellate, or fortify, the manor. In 1346 David II of Scotland was held prisoner at Ogle after his capture at the Battle of Neville's Cross.
Catherine Ogle and the Royalist Duke of Newcastle
Catherine Ogle (c. 1568–1629) was the last direct descendant of the senior line. She married Sir Charles Cavendish, and after her death the manor passed to their son William Cavendish, later 1st Duke of Newcastle.
Cavendish was the senior Royalist in the North during the First English Civil War of 1642–1646 and spent much of his fortune raising troops for Charles I. After the defeat at Marston Moor in 1644 he went into exile in Europe, returning only after the Restoration of 1660.
From Parliament's Sale to Grade I Listing, 1653–1987
Parliament sold Ogle Castle in 1653 to James Moseley, who repaired some of the damage done during the civil wars. The original house was then extensively rebuilt after the property was returned to William Cavendish in 1660, and the modern building largely dates from that period; of the older work it retains only the mediaeval tower house with its projecting latrine, along with parts of a double moat on the western and northern sides.
The site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, and the building was listed Grade I on 29 April 1987.
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Clans who held Ogle Castle.
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Passed by marriage to Sir Charles Cavendish and then to his son William Cavendish, later 1st Duke of Newcastle, in the 17th century.
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