Millhouse

A post-medieval bastle stands in the grounds of Millhouse Grange and is now used as a store and garage. The walls are over 1m thick and built of large blocks of stone with a boulder plinth around two sides. Although it was altered in the 18th or 19th century, many original features have survived. They include slit vents, upper doorway, drawbar tunnel, an unusual small square window, and a roof truss. The bastle probably had an attic floor as well. This is a Grade II Listed Building protected by law. [From "Keys to the Past"]

1701
Robert Mallabar conveys Millhouse to N. Ridley.

1894 Kelly's Directory of Northumberland

"Millhouse is a hamlet adjacent to Bardon Mill station and on the north bank of the river Tyne, here crossed by an iron foot bridge, upwards of 100 yards in length, erected in 1883, at a cost of £550, and connecting this place with Beltingham.  Millhouse Grange is the residence of Dixon and Keir Pratt esqrs. and Miss Pratt."

"Letters through Bardon Mill, the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 8.30 a.m."

1910

MILLHOUSE is a hamlet adjacent to Bardon Mill station and on the north bank of the river Tyne, here crossed by an iron foot-bridge, upwards of 100 yards in length, erected in 1883, at a cost of £550, and connecting this place with Beltingham and Ridley.

Letters through Carlisle via Bardon Mill, the nearest money order & telegraph office, arrive at 8.30 a.m.

1914 Kelly's Directory of Northumberland

"Millhouse is a hamlet adjacent to Bardon Mill station and on the north bank of the river Tyne, here crossed by an iron foot-bridge, upwards of 100 yards in length, erected in 1883, at a cost of £550, and connecting this place with Beltingham and Ridley."

"Letters through Carlisle via Bardon Mill, the nearest moneyt order &telegraph office, arrive at 8:30 a.m."