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Historic Houses Collection Award Runners Up! The 2023 AGM celebrated 50 years of Historic House membership. We were thrilled to have been incluided in the shortlist and final results of this prestigious award.  Cragend Farm ‘Collections Award 2023 – special mention for custodianship’.  "The Historic Houses judges met and decided not just on a winner, (Ushaw Seminary - well w ...

We have won the Historic Houses Custodian Prize, and are runners up in the Collections Award! Very exciting. Cragend Farm Custodian Award 2023. If you are interested in seeing our application on why our Collection and heritage site won this award then please read on: Award winning Cragend Farm ‘museum’ collection is an eclectic mix of agricultural equipment, historical a ...

Shortlisted for an Award We are thrilled to have been shortlisted as one of six Historic Houses nationwide for The Collections Award for re-imaging our Collection of historical aretefacts, telling the story of our historic site and giving visitors a sensory experience of life in Border Country Northumberland from it's earliest beginnings to it's Victorian re-invention. Th ...

Christmas and  New Year Availability  East Cottage is available for short breaks and week long bookings over the festive period so take a break and book with us and enjoy a Northumberland Christmas time. ...

We are in modern day terms, Cragend Farm. On Cragend Hill. However, if you go back in history we were Craig End or Craigend or Cragend , and Black Bank was the large set of Crags behind the settlement as well as being Cragend Hill. ...

East Cottage is a self-catering cottage sleeps 4 It is available from: 18th August on a 7 day rental £875 25th August on a 7 day rental £875 8th September a 7 day rental £875   Dog friendly and children welcome. !50 acres of farm to visit as well as the whole of Northumberland. Enjoy the view! ...

Things to do in northumberland Cragend Farm Historic Tour takes you from The Big Bang to 21st century following the history of how the farm developed. Lord Armstrong of Cragside used it as a show case for his modern technology for agricultural and industrial machinery and this can be experienced in a sensory visit with pictoral and written evidence for history and engineering ...

Charging you Electric Vehicle at Cragend Farm: We offer overnight charging at 33p per kw/hr for guests. Locally there are 2 fast chargers in Alnwick and Morpeth. There is a charger at Rothbury hospital and Thropton Spar supermarket both which are approx 4 3miles away.   You will need the Apple App and or Swarco App. See below.  to operate the EV charger at our Spar st ...

As part of Historic Houses we sent some pieces up to London for Dreweatts Pall Mall Exhibition 12-15th June. Sporting life was the theme and we sent an oar from Cambridge and a greyhounds racing cup.  Thank you to Dreweatts and Sackville-West for all their hard word. ...

Become a Sponsor If you are interested in Industrial and Agricultural Engineering you can be a sponsor at Cragend Farm. Conservation is a priority here with the intergrety of the heritage of the farm and its ancient history. We are looking for companies and private sponsors who have an interest in hydro-power  as well as architecture and surveying . Contact Shaun Renwick fo ...

We thoroughly enjoyed our visit to your fantastic farm on the Historic Houses tour on Tuesday. We both agree that it was the most interesting HHA visit we have ever done - and we have done many over the years! We had no idea of the extent of the Armstrong connection or what you have there, having visited Cragside on so many occasions in the past 50 years or so. And indeed looked down on the farm from the walks at Cragend quite recently. We particularly enjoyed ascending and descending the ladders to look at the hydraulic equipment and get an idea of how it all functioned, the beautiful and unusual buildings which had housed the cattle, and were intrigued by the contents of your "underground " loo! Peacocks and chicks, hens and a beautiful pet lamb added to the feel of the farm.

Shaun & Lou Renwick are keen to harness the farm's natural resources, using wood to heat their water, to cook with on a wood burning range, and to heat the houses on the Farm. Even if your house is not equipped to totally run on wood there are things you can do to make sure you are using the best quality wood for your fires.

Why use Seasoned Wood?

Seasoned wood is a definition for 'wood drying'. About 5% of the energy of the log is wasted through evaporation and heating the water vapour of damp logs.

Moisture effects the burning process with unburnt hydrocarbons going up the chimney, which can in time create 'sooting' in the chimney, with the possibility of a chimney fire, all of which requires specialist sweeping.

Drying the wood before burning reduces moisture content in the wood before it is used for burning,

Air drying is the most traditional method, and it takes time. usually over and above 2 years! The fire will use less energy to burn the log if the water content is below 20%. Therefore is can give OUT more energy in the form of heat!

Cragend Farm endeavours to provide their customers with the best seasoned wood possible.

if you would like further information on the process of burning wood please contact us and we will be happy to help.

Why seasoned wood?

Thank you so much Lou and Shaun for a great holiday break on your farm at Cragend last week. East Cottage was a super place to stay. Very comfortable accommodation with everything we needed for self-catering and situated next to the beautiful Cragside National Trust gardens. It was super for our dog with fields to walk across as well as a secure fenced place for her to run off lead! Such interesting history too about the farm and how you have restored the buildings, the Victorian silo and so much else of the past farming life at Cragend. We look forward to returning! J&M Nottingham.

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