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Thropton Bastle
Also known as, or recorded in historical
documents as; The Peel; West Farmhouse
In the civil parish of Thropton.
In the historic county of Northumberland (Modern Authority of Northumberland, 1974 county of Northumberland).
Bastle, built in C16 or early C17, altered in 1863 and extended in the late C20. Now a private house. Built of stone rubble with a Welsh slate roof. The ground floor of the bastle has a barrel vaulted roof with the original ladder hole near the south east corner. This is not the same as the vanished Thropton tower. Rectangular plan: 12.2 x 7.1m externally, with walls 1.50m thick. South elevation 3 storeys, 2 irregular bays: ground-floor windows of 1863 with rough-faced lintels and sills. Blocked slit between and traces of blocked opening on far left. lst-floor windows in C18 tooled block surrounds; 3 small 2nd floor windows, the central with old chamfered surround and bar holes; all windows now C20 4-pane casements. Coped gables with stepped end stacks. West end shows traces of blocked lst-floor window under relieving arch, and chamfered 2nd-floor loop. East end (now internal wall) shows central blocked byre entrance with rounded arrises to jambs and lintel and relieving arch above; 1st floor doorway above and to right has similar jambs and later head. North elevation shows original chamfered loop with bar holes in centre and small window, probably modification of an original loop, on right. To right is attached cartshed with hipped roof; boarded door and double doors on right return. Interior: Ground floor has tall round-arched barrel vault, with original ladder hole near south-east corner and central cut-away section for C19 stair. A well-preserved bastle house, carefully restored in recent years.
This site has been described as a;
Bastle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Major remains.
This site is a
Grade 2 listed
building protected by law*. (Images
of England number 236666)
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid Reference is NU02710231
PastScape number;
4737
County Sites and Monuments Record number; N2844
- Web site links
- Books
- Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Keepdate Publishing) p165
Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern) p120 [slight]
Rowland, T.H., 1987 [reprint1994], Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p61
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol2 p360
Ramm, H.G., McDowell, R.W. and Mercer, E. 1970. Shielings and Bastles (London) p92, no.68
Long, B., 1967, Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) p162
Dodds, Madeleine Hope (ed), 1940, Northumberland County History (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Vol15 p364
Dixon, D.D. 1903. Upper Coquetdale (Newcastle) p456
- Journal Articles
- Hadcock, R.N., 1939, 'Map of Mediaeval Northum and Durham' Archaeologia Aeliana [ser4] Vol16 p182
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