Akeld Bastle and Attached Walling to South
AKELD BASTLE AND ATTACHED WALLING TO SOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042370
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Akeld Bastle and Attached Walling to South
- Statutory Address:
- AKELD BASTLE AND ATTACHED WALLING TO SOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1042370
- Date first listed:
- 14-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Akeld Bastle and Attached Walling to South
- Statutory Address 1:
- AKELD BASTLE AND ATTACHED WALLING TO SOUTH
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:
- AKELD BASTLE AND ATTACHED WALLING TO SOUTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Akeld
- National Grid Reference:
- NT 95767 29408
Details
NT 92 NE AKELD AKELD
8/4 Akeld Bastle and attached walling to south GV II*
Bastle-house forerunner, now animal shelter. Late medieval, upper storey probably rebuilt late C16 or C17. Random rubble walls 5 ft. thick with dressed stone quoins. Welsh slate roof.
2 storeys c.62 x 25 ft.
Original doorway to right of long west wall has chamfered surround with drawbar holes. Relieving arch over. Later door to left. 3 small shuttered windows on 1st floor. Gabled roof with flat raised coping.
On right return a double outside stone stair to boarded 1st floor door.
On left return 4 slit windows to ground floor. Dovecote above with five stone alighting ledges and 12 holes in stone screens.
Interior has impressive high round tunnel vault.
Field wall attached on right return and stretching c.1OO yards south is very substantially constructed, over 5 ft. high, has a pronounced batter and may partly represent the former barmkin.
Northumberland County History Vol. Archeologia Aeliana 3rd Series IX (1913).
Listing NGR: NT9576729408
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 237580
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Northumberland, (1940)
Archaeologia Aeliana in Archaeologia Aeliana, Vol. 9, (1913)
Other
Battlefields Register,
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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