Ponteland Castle is a stone 13th century tower house, founded by William de Valence. The tower, with its barrel-vaulted basement and spiral stair, where part of a manorial complex, which was destroyed in a Scottish raid in 1388. Mark Errington restored the towers basement and first floor in the 16th century, inserting Tudor windows and a fireplace, with a large chimney breast on the outside wall. In the 17th century, the tower was absorbed in the construction of a Jacobean manor house. Nearby is Ponteland Vicar's Pele and 7 miles north-west is Belsay Castle.