Cambo Post Office, a modernised bastle. Photo by Peter Ryder.

(Marginal) A peel at Cambo, now a large shop. (1)

NZ 02658566 A much-modernised bastle, with walls up to 1.4m thick, now in use as a Post Office and shop. See photograph. (2)

NZ 026856. Post Office has characteristics of a bastle. Remodelled 1818. Three storeys; random rubble with squared quoins. Measures 24ft 3ins x 35ft 9ins, walls 4ft 6ins thick. Former first floor doorway indicated by four voussoirs of an arch. Other original openings obliterated by remodelling; no original internal arrangements remain. (3)

The Post Office is in a medieval tower house. (4)

House of bastle character, 16th century, converted into shop 1818. Heavy rubble with large quoins, tooled dressings; stone slate roof. First floor remains of original door.
Interior altered, walls 1.3m thick. The building, although apparently a bastle rather than a tower, appears to have been three storeyed from the first. (5)

Solitary form bastle, measures 10.9 x 7.4m, with walls 1.4m thick. First floor door in long wall. Present state - house. (6)

Very small tower, not in a strong position. (7)

A three storeyed house at the east end of the 'model village' of Cambo, in which it is almost certainly the oldest building.
The building measures 10.9m by 7.4m externally and is built of heavy rubble with roughly shaped quoins; the walls are c.1.4m thick. The south front is of two bays, with a central doorway. The large window to the west of the door has its lintel inscribed 'J.T.1818'; all the other openings have similar dressings and appear contemporary. A disturbance in the masonry beneath the large window may indicate the position of the original lower doorway; to the east of the window above four inclined blocks in the wall are probably part of the relieving arch above the upper doorway (a large slab below may survive from its eastern jamb).
The west gable end has traces of a blocked window set centrally at ground floor level and a small window (with no features of antiquity) further north. At first floor level, set north of centre, is a square window with a chamfered surround, presumably original. There is a similar window directly above, partly obscured by mortar. The upper part of the gable is of coursed stone and seems to have been rebuilt. The stepped coping and chimney stacks on both gables are clearly 19th century work.
The exposed section of the north wall shows no features of antiquity. There is a short three-storeyed wing at the east end of the north wall, which appears to be of early 19th century date, incorporating older masonry (probably early 18th century) at ground floor level.
The are said to be no features of antiquity internally. In a collection of unpublished drawings by C C Hodges, held in the Society of Antiquaries Library, Newcastle, is a drawing of 1884 of a medieval grave slab carved with a pair of shears, labelled 'Cambo, window head of Post Office'; this slab is no longer visible and may have been plastered over. (8)

The bastle was probably built by Sir William Fenwick between 1571 and 1613. It was altered in the mid 19th century by raising the roof to add an extra floor, replacing the thatch with stone tiles, blanking off the gable door and refenstration. Internal stairs were also added at that time. A village store was opened in the ground floor and a tailor occupied the first floor.. A Post Office has since occupied the ground floor. Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (9a-b)