This structure stood until the Reformation, when it was unroofed and suffered to fall into ruin.
One of Borchgrevink's huts built in 1899 was in good order, the other had been unroofed by a storm but both were serviceable.
In 1630 Barnard Castle was sold to Sir Henry Vane, and in the same year the castle is said to have been unroofed and dismantled for the sake of the materials of which it was built.
This heap, made in the winter of '46-7 and estimated to contain ten thousand tons, was finally covered with hay and boards; and though it was unroofed the following July, and a part of it carried off, the rest remaining exposed to the sun, it stood over that summer and the next winter, and was not quite melted till September, 1848.