Cowshill Bridge End Bastle

Has been described as a Certain Bastle

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameCowshill Bridge End Bastle
Alternative Names
Historic CountryDurham
Modern AuthorityDurham
1974 AuthorityCounty Durham
Civil ParishStanhope

Bastle house; possibly c.1600 with alterations. Roughly coursed and squared stone, with some massive quoins and ashlar dressings; stone-flagged roof. 2 storeys, 2 windows. Side steps, behind flat-coped stepped wall, to first-floor central Dutch door. Thin stone lintel to door and to flanking late C19 sashes with thin stone sills. Right return gable has central ground-floor 2-centred- arched surround to chamfered flat Tudor-arched door; draw-bar slot. 2 irregularly-placed small sashes above at left, one with glazing bars. End chimneys with thin string near top. Interior of ground floor shows walls about 1m thick. (Listed Building Report)

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number
Historic England Listed Building number(s)
Images Of England
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY852407
Latitude54.7610511779785
Longitude-2.23150992393494
Eastings385200
Northings540700
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Books

  • Salter, Mike, 2002, The Castles and Tower Houses of County Durham (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 63 (slight)

Journals

  • Ryder, P.F., 1994, 'Bastles in Weardale' The Bonny Moor Hen: The Journal of The Weardale Field Study Society No. 7 p. 2