Listed building outline

Jennys Lantern On Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West Of East Bolton Farm

Field Value Fact links
Reference 1041960 Facts
Prefix listed-building-outline Facts
Name Jennys Lantern On Hilltop 1.4 Kilometres South West Of East Bolton Farm Facts
Dataset Listed building outline no fact link
Organisation Northumberland County Council no fact link
Start date 1987-08-25 no fact link
End date no fact link
Entry date 1987-08-25 Facts
Typology geography no fact link
Geometry MULTIPOLYGON (((-1.812575 55.4315, -1.812382 55.43154, -1.812412 55.431586, -1.812604 55.431548, -1.812575 55.4315))) Facts
Point POINT (-1.812494 55.431543) Facts
Notes HEDGELEY EAST BOLTON NU 11 NW NU 11961531 Jenny's Lantern, 5/233 on hilltop 1.4 kilometre south- west of East Bolton Farm II Ruin of eyecatcher incorporating shepherd's cottage, probably mid-C18. Squared stone. Rectangular plan. South wall shows door and window openings of single-storey cottage which had pent roof against taller flat-coped wall to rear; coping stepped down on left return. Right return fallen. A prominent landscape feature, its form probably based on Crawley Tower (q.v.); associated with local legend of a shepherd's wife displaying a lantern to guide her husband home over the fells after his evenings in an Eglingham hostelry; one evening however he fell into a bog and drowned. , Facts
Listed building 1041960 Facts

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