Lou is the owner of Cragend Farm with her husband Shaun, and deals with everything from Holiday Accommodation inquiries to egg collection from the chickens; she is the social media and web design finger-tapper.
Cragside is a National Trust property that has beautiful gardens and walks, as well as a magnificent house to visit.
Cragend Farm is the Model Farm of Lord Armstrong of Cragside and is situated next door. Privately owned Cragend Farm can be visited for tours by appointment. We also have accommodation offering you the opportunity to stay in an original Armstrong farmworkers cottage, or dairy.
Cragside has a hydraulic pump house powered by water as well as an elevator and a rotisserie powered by water. The Power House is located in the grounds and houses the Turbine that provided electricity for the house in 1880's which you can explore.
There are also two turbines from neighbouring farms that have been conserved and a water wheel from anotherwhere it shows that Cragend Farm also has machinery insitu
Cragend Farm has a hydraulic jig in situ that lifts 18 x 1 ton weights and a 3 HP turbine in its listed Grade II* Hydraulic Silo once powered by water from The Blackburn Reservoir, and also a 30 HP turbine that powered milling threshing and grinding machines in the barn, and most importantly is the power source for The Silo offering 200ft Head of water.
Cragend Farm can be visited along side Cragside by contacting us directly if you are interested in seeing more of the ingenious and inventive engineering by the great Lord William Armstrong.
01669-621533.
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Cragend Farm has a interesting and diverse history, from technical innovations to historic buildings. Tied in closely to the neighbouring Cragside Estate home of Victorian inventor and industrialist Lord Armstrong.