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Doddington Bastle
In the civil parish of Doddington.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
The ruins of a strong house stand at Doddington. It was built in 1584 Sir Thomas Grey of Chillingham. The plan is T-shaped with a three-storey main and projecting three-storey stair tower. It originally had a datestone but this was removed to Ewart Park. The building stood complete until 1896, when the eastern part collapsed in a gale. It is built of massive coursed blocks of roughly squared sandstone. What survives today are the west end, the south and west walls of the stair turret and the lower part of the north wall. This is an unusual building, but this type of building was known as a "bastle-house" it is of a greater social status and size than usual for bastles. It is of a later date than most pele towers and tower houses and of somewhat different design. However, it's apparent social and domestic function puts it somewhere between a pele tower and a tower house in terms of the definitions I use.
This site has been described as a;
Bastle
Tower House.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a scheduled
monument protected by law.
This site is a
Grade 2* listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 237716)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NT99813250
PastScape number;
3770
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N2137
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p79-81
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p43
Pevsner, N., 1992 (revised by Grundy, John et al), The Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p138
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p22, 29
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p358
Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p132-4
Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London) p61, 63 and 67
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p92
Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles p81
Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1935, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol14 p155-9
Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (Methuen and Co)
- Journal Articles
- 1909, History of the Berwickshire Naturalist Club Vol21 p28-30 [slight]
Knowles, 1899, Archaeologia Aeliana [new ser] Vol21 p293-301
- Other sources and unpublished works (Theses, in-house reports and other such)
- Ryder, P.F., 1994-5. Towers and Bastles in Northumberland, part 2 Berwick District, 12-13
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