Bastle at Low Leam Farm (Corsenside)
NY 87638615 Incorporated in the farm buildings at Low Leam is a building of similar dimensions and characteristics to the 16th/early 17th century bastle or pele house situated 600m to the NNE (see NY 88 NE 5).
The building is rectangular 10.6m x 6.9m, of two stories, with walls 1.1m to 1.3m thick of undressed stones, some very large, with roughly squared quoins. On the ground floor at the west end is an original square headed door with chamfered surround, two sets of drawbar holes, and large pivot holes in lintel and threshold. All other doors and windows are later insertions. Corbelling at the east and west ends helps support the wooden floor.
Local tradition is that the building was a 'pale'. It is in good condition and is now used as a cattle byre and grain store. (1)
Condition unchanged. See photographs. (2)
NY 876862 Bastle at Low Leam (See Type-site NY 88 SE 14). (3)
Remains of a bastle as described in reports of 6/4/56 and 6/10/70. (4)
Detailed description. (5)
NY 8763 8615. Bastle at Low Leam Farm. Scheduled RSM No 25035. The bastle lies 12m to the N of the present farmhouse and survives in its original form to eaves level. It is roughly rectangular in plan, measuring 9.4m by 5.6m within stone walls 1.2m thick. The basement was entered through a doorway in the W gable; this is square-headed and displays a relieving arch over the lintel and two draw bar tunnels. The doorways in the E and N walls are later additions. There is an original slit window in the S wall of the basement or byre which has been blocked at a later date. The top stone course of the byre projects outwards in order to carry the heavy timbers which supported the upper storey, which served as the main living area of the farm and was accessed through a door placed in the S wall, now blocked and only visible from a later farm building built against the S wall; also visible is a blocked slit window and an inscribed stone carrying the initials 'M C' and a date thought to read '1602'. The walls of the bastle were raised in the 19th century and it has a modern roof. The monument is also a Grade II Listed Building. (6)
The farm buildings at Low Leam incorporate a bastle. (7)
A detailed description and photographic record was made in May 2019 ahead of conservation works. (8)
Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (9a,b))
The building is rectangular 10.6m x 6.9m, of two stories, with walls 1.1m to 1.3m thick of undressed stones, some very large, with roughly squared quoins. On the ground floor at the west end is an original square headed door with chamfered surround, two sets of drawbar holes, and large pivot holes in lintel and threshold. All other doors and windows are later insertions. Corbelling at the east and west ends helps support the wooden floor.
Local tradition is that the building was a 'pale'. It is in good condition and is now used as a cattle byre and grain store. (1)
Condition unchanged. See photographs. (2)
NY 876862 Bastle at Low Leam (See Type-site NY 88 SE 14). (3)
Remains of a bastle as described in reports of 6/4/56 and 6/10/70. (4)
Detailed description. (5)
NY 8763 8615. Bastle at Low Leam Farm. Scheduled RSM No 25035. The bastle lies 12m to the N of the present farmhouse and survives in its original form to eaves level. It is roughly rectangular in plan, measuring 9.4m by 5.6m within stone walls 1.2m thick. The basement was entered through a doorway in the W gable; this is square-headed and displays a relieving arch over the lintel and two draw bar tunnels. The doorways in the E and N walls are later additions. There is an original slit window in the S wall of the basement or byre which has been blocked at a later date. The top stone course of the byre projects outwards in order to carry the heavy timbers which supported the upper storey, which served as the main living area of the farm and was accessed through a door placed in the S wall, now blocked and only visible from a later farm building built against the S wall; also visible is a blocked slit window and an inscribed stone carrying the initials 'M C' and a date thought to read '1602'. The walls of the bastle were raised in the 19th century and it has a modern roof. The monument is also a Grade II Listed Building. (6)
The farm buildings at Low Leam incorporate a bastle. (7)
A detailed description and photographic record was made in May 2019 ahead of conservation works. (8)
Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (9a,b))
N7957
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
20th Century (1901 to 2000)
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1956; E Geary
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1970; D Smith
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT, Green Rigg Wind Farm 2006; Northern Archaeological Associates
ANALYTICAL BUILDINGS RECORD (LEVEL 3), Farm buildings at Low Leam 2019; Vindomora Solutions
FIELD OBSERVATION, Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division Field Investigation 1970; D Smith
DESK BASED ASSESSMENT, Green Rigg Wind Farm 2006; Northern Archaeological Associates
ANALYTICAL BUILDINGS RECORD (LEVEL 3), Farm buildings at Low Leam 2019; Vindomora Solutions
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