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Old Hollinside fortified hall house is a fifteenth-century fortified dwelling located in Whickham, County Durham. The structure exemplifies the defensive architecture characteristic of the Anglo-Scottish border region during the medieval period, when fortified hall houses served both residential and protective functions for local landholding families. The building demonstrates typical features of its typology and period, reflecting the architectural responses to the security concerns that prevailed in northern England during the later Middle Ages.
Old Hollinside fortified hall house, Whickham is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1018679. View the official record →
Old Hollinside fortified hall house is a fifteenth-century fortified dwelling located in Whickham, County Durham. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1018679.
Old Hollinside fortified hall house, Whickham is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1018679.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Winlaton Mill ironworks, south east of Winlaton Mill village (0.5 km), Gibside Hall, 17th to 19th century country house (1.4 km), Friarside Chapel (3.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Old Hollinside fortified hall house, Whickham's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Old Hollinside fortified hall house, Whickham stands on Pennine Lower Coal Measures Formation And South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Westphalian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.