Leslie, someone after my own heart....old books
The house on the Butts which you visited, presumably it is an 18/19th century build?
I'm impressed with your Hermit document. My mother, who went to school in Warkworth, obviously had to learn the ballad by heart. She would often launch into the opening lines but we never got any further than.."dark was the night and wild the storm and loud the torrent roared." As you can see it's all I know!