High Shaw Bastle
HIGH SHAW BASTLE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041244
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- List Entry Name:
- High Shaw Bastle
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH SHAW BASTLE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1041244
- Date first listed:
- 21-Oct-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- High Shaw Bastle
- Statutory Address 1:
- HIGH SHAW BASTLE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- HIGH SHAW BASTLE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Hepple
- National Park:
- Northumberland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 93582 98251
Details
HEPPLE HIGH SHAW NY 99 NW 936983 5/34 High Shaw Bastle (formerly listed as Pele nearly ½ mile WNW 21.10.53 of the Raw (in Woodside Parish) II
Bastlehouse. C16 or early C17. Massive coursed rubble. Only the ground floor remains. c.40 x 24 ft. c.12 ft. high. Ground-floor doorway in east gable end has chamfered alternating-block surround with relieving arch over. Above the ground floor a chamfered string course - the only bastle to posses this feature. Triangular opening, probably a gun loop, in east end.
Interior: walls c.64 inches thick. Segmental tunnel vault with ladder hole only c.12 inches square. Doorway is rebated and has drawbar holes. In west wall a roughly-made recess with a vertical shaft in the thickness of the wall and a well-dressed triangular opening through the wall, possibly a gun loop (cf exterior).
Shielings and Bastles: Ramm, Mercer & McDowall: HMSO: 1970.
Listing NGR: NY9358298251
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 236274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ramm, H G, Shielings and Bastles, (1970)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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