Newbiggin possible bastle (Rothley with Hollinghill)
Newbiggin Farm, Hollinghill. Photo by Peter Ryder.
(NZ 03609410) Newbigin (NAT) (1)
The farmhouse is of several periods and includes a partition wall some 4 ft thick, now partly masked by a chimney breast, which is said to be the the end wall of a bastle. (See Type-site NY 88 SE 14). (2)
Newbiggin Farm lies in a fairly remote location on the north side of the Font valley, above the Fontburn Reservoir. The house is rather surprisingly listed in authority (2) as 'including a partition wall 4ft thick, now partly masked by a chimney breast, which is said to have been the end wall of a bastle'.
The house is of four irregular bays, all two storeyed, but with the western bay considerably lower than the remainder. The wall in question is 1.3m thick and forms the west end of the taller three-bay part. No old features are exposed and there are no clear indications of the wall, or of bastle period fabric, externally. A set of quoins further east, in the upper half of the wall only, seem to relate to the 18th century(?) heightening of the eastern two bays of the range (which are set at a slightly skew angle to the western part) before the third bay was heightened. On the north, what may be an earlier quoin facing in the opposite direction (ie forming the north east angle of a building on the site of the western bay) is visible below the quoining in the upper part of the wall. (3)
Listed by Dodds. (4a)
The farmhouse is of several periods and includes a partition wall some 4 ft thick, now partly masked by a chimney breast, which is said to be the the end wall of a bastle. (See Type-site NY 88 SE 14). (2)
Newbiggin Farm lies in a fairly remote location on the north side of the Font valley, above the Fontburn Reservoir. The house is rather surprisingly listed in authority (2) as 'including a partition wall 4ft thick, now partly masked by a chimney breast, which is said to have been the end wall of a bastle'.
The house is of four irregular bays, all two storeyed, but with the western bay considerably lower than the remainder. The wall in question is 1.3m thick and forms the west end of the taller three-bay part. No old features are exposed and there are no clear indications of the wall, or of bastle period fabric, externally. A set of quoins further east, in the upper half of the wall only, seem to relate to the 18th century(?) heightening of the eastern two bays of the range (which are set at a slightly skew angle to the western part) before the third bay was heightened. On the north, what may be an earlier quoin facing in the opposite direction (ie forming the north east angle of a building on the site of the western bay) is visible below the quoining in the upper part of the wall. (3)
Listed by Dodds. (4a)
N10801
THEMATIC SURVEY, Towers and Bastles in Northumberland 1995; P RYDER
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