Triermain Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Triermain Castle is a ruin in the parish of Waterhead, in north-east Cumbria, just east of Triermain farm. It occupies a small glacial mound in the middle of a broad valley, about one kilometre north of Hadrian's Wall, whose stones were reused to build it. It was a quadrangular enclosure castle, flanked by towers to the east and west, surrounded by a curtain wall and a water-filled moat. Today only one corner of the main residential block survives, standing almost to its full height, together with a fragment of the gatehouse and traces of the moat; the rest of the mound is covered with grassed-over rubble. Despite its modest scale, the site is rich in literary associations: Walter Scott set The Bridal of Triermain there, and Coleridge mentions it in Christabel. The monument is protected as a Scheduled Monument and is among the sites monitored as heritage at risk.