Low Angerton bastle (Hartburn)
Low Angerton bastle. Photo by Peter Ryder.
Solitary form bastle, 6.7m wide, with side walls 1.05m thick and end wall 1.1m thick. Byre entrance in gable end wall. (1)
The ruins of a bastle lie in gardens to the north east of a 19th century house. All that remains is the lower part of the west end and adjacent pieces of the side walls. The walling, which stands to a maximum height of 2.5m, is of large roughly-shaped and roughly-coursed blocks, with very large quoins. In the centre of the west end is the blocked byre doorway, which has a semicircular-arched head (cut from two triangular blocks) and a drawbar tunnel in the north jamb. No other features survive.
The remains of a cottage of late 18th or early 19th century date stand on the same alignment as the bastle, c.7m to the east. The south west corner of the cottage has a large boulder in its footing, which might indicate either a second bastle, or possibly the position of the east wall of the first.
This is an isolated bastle and an unusually easterly example. The arched doorhead is of a form more common in Allendale. (2)
Scheduled. (3)
Additional reference. (4a)
The ruins of a bastle lie in gardens to the north east of a 19th century house. All that remains is the lower part of the west end and adjacent pieces of the side walls. The walling, which stands to a maximum height of 2.5m, is of large roughly-shaped and roughly-coursed blocks, with very large quoins. In the centre of the west end is the blocked byre doorway, which has a semicircular-arched head (cut from two triangular blocks) and a drawbar tunnel in the north jamb. No other features survive.
The remains of a cottage of late 18th or early 19th century date stand on the same alignment as the bastle, c.7m to the east. The south west corner of the cottage has a large boulder in its footing, which might indicate either a second bastle, or possibly the position of the east wall of the first.
This is an isolated bastle and an unusually easterly example. The arched doorhead is of a form more common in Allendale. (2)
Scheduled. (3)
Additional reference. (4a)
N10596
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