T(NY 94259802) Peel. (1)

Situated 3 miles north of Elsdon at Raw, are the remains of Haws Peel which was tenantless in the late 18th century and by the mid 19th century was in ruins. (2)(3)

The structure measures overall, 12.3m by 7.7m with walls 1.5m thick at ground level. The upper storey has been completely reconstructed and there is a modern gabled roof of grey slate. The original entrance is in the south-east end and is equipped with bar-holes. The building is now used for stock and storing of farm produce. See photograph. (4)

Condition unchanged. (5)

NY 942980 Reconstructed bastle. (See Type-site NY 88 SE 14). (6)

II* The Raw Pele or Bastle. Now a farm building. Interesting late bastle with unusual carved ornaments on its east side, a woman's head with a sort of halo, and something like a portcullis. Scene of the murder for which Winter was hanged, see Howitt's 'Tour'. (7)

Bastlehouse at the Raw Farm, Grade II (for full description see list) (formerly Grade II* in provisional list). (8)

Bastle now farmbuilding. Rectangular building 12.3m x 7.3m; walls of roughly-coursed roughly-squared stone 1.6m thick; upper storey partly rebuilt in smaller squared stone; boulder plinth and foundation exposed on north east. Original byre entrance door in centre of south east wall, now within later building, has square-headed chamfered opening; twin draw-bar tunnels in south west jamb. Mutilated loop in north west wall, later doorway on south west and doorway reduced to window on north east. Basement has segmental barrel vault with tiny (0.25m square) ?ladder hole in apex, wall cupboards at north west end, beam holes for loft at south east end; other ragged holes in the walls are probably later alterations. First floor now reached by external stone stair on south west has 18th/19th century doorway; similar doorway in north east wall formerly had external stair. Slit window on south west largely in 18th/19th century masonry; window on north east has jambs carved with book/rosette and female head; later lintel. Much encumbered with 19th/20th century farmbuildings. Serious structural crack developing in north west gable-end, possibly occasioned by lowering ground level on north east side. (9)

NY 9425 9800. Bastle at The Raw Farm. Scheduled RSM No 20908. The bastle, surviving to first floor level, is 9.1m x 4.5m within stone walls 1.6m thick. Traces of a plinth and a more massive foundation course are exposed at the NE side. The upper storey has been partially rebuilt in the late 18th century with smaller, squarer masonry. The bastle now has a modern roof of metal sheeting. (10)

16th or early 17th century, built of random rubble with asbestos roof. Still intact though somewhat hemmed in by later buildings. The most visible side is the west side which has an 18th century doorway on the ground floor and, to the right, the outside stone steps to the original, but partly rebuilt, first floor doorway. The original ground floor doorway is in the south gable and is masked by a later building. The most unusual feature of the bastle is a window on the east side whose jambs are carved, uniquely, with a human hand and a rosette with tassels. The ground floor is tunnel-vaulted and the passage through to the door unusually treated with a well-built segmental arched vault. The Raw was the scene of the murder in 1791 of Margaret Crozier by William Winter who was executed for the crime at Winter's Gibbet in Elsdon parish. (11)

Excavation work carried out on the northeastern side of the bastle revealed wall footings of large boulders, above which the main body of the wall - as squared and mainly coursed stones - rises. The external stair on the western wall of the bastle is a later addition to the building. Internally barrel-vaulted ground floor and with an arched and splayed passage in the southeast wall. A void has been examined within the thickness of the northern wall; it appears a failed attempt at inserting a later window. There are five areas of graffitti visible on the ground floor walls which appear to be sets of initials. Internal features include cupboards, arched panel with an eroded bust and smoke-hood. The bastle has seen many alterations and insertions since its original construction. (12)

Additional bibliography contains a general account of the bastle on the Otterburn Ranges, including the murder of Margaret Crozier at Raw Bastle. (13)

Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (14a-b)