Description

NT 92 NW EARLE HARTHOPE VALLEY

11/23 Langleeford Farmhouse

GV II

House. Mid - late C18. Rendered and painted with painted stone dressings.
Scottish slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 bays with single-storey, 1-bay addition to
left.

Central 6-panelled door. Sash windows with intermediate glazing bars removed.
12-pane sash in 1-bay addition.

Steeply-pitched gabled roof with kneelers and thin raised coping. Rendered end
stacks.

Interior has staircase, with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. 6-panelled
doors and internal shutters.

Sir Walter Scott stayed here for a holiday in 1791 and wrote ...

...Behold a letter from the mountains for I am very snugly settled here in a
farmer's house ... in the very centre of the Cheviot Hills in one of the wildest
and most Romantic sites ... My uncle drinks the goat's whey here, as I do ever
since I understood it was brought to his bedside every morning at six by a
very pretty dairy-maid.

All day we shoot, fish, walk and ride; dine and sup on fish struggling from
the stream ... all in perfection; and so much simplicity resides among these
hills that a pen ... was not to be found about the house, though belonging to
a considerable farmer, till I shot the crow with whose quill I write this epistle.

The Letters of Sir Walter Scott (1787-1832) ed. Sir Herbert J.C. Grierson.

Listing NGR: NT9491321964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26445761

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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