Woodhead Bastle
Has been described as a Possible Bastle
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | Woodhead Bastle |
| Alternative Names | |
| Historic Country | Northumberland |
| Modern Authority | Northumberland |
| 1974 Authority | Northumberland |
| Civil Parish | Hedley |
Old farmstead, probably all basically C17 with a farmhouse which shows several indications of being derived from a bastle. (PastScape ref. Dodds 1999)
Woodhead Farmhouse was built in the 17th century. The eastern part of the house may be a bastle, but this is an unusually easterly location for such a building. (Keys to the Past)
House, originally two dwellings. C17, altered. Rubble with dressings and roughly-shaped quoins; Welsh slate roof, two brick stacks. South elevation in 2 sections: left part 2 storeys, 2 bays; lower windows retain lintels of 3- and 4-light mullioned windows, upper windows (including narrow window to far right) with projecting brick sills. Steeply-pitched roof with end stacks. Left return shows massive stepped stack flanked at attic level by narrow chamfered lights, one with old iron bar. Lower right part 2 storeys, 2 bays, irregular; to far left renewed door in chamfered surround with flat-pointed head in square frame, and traces of possible blocked doorway above; lower windows, that to right part-slatted, with timber lintels and brick sills, upper 8-pane Yorkshire sashes. Right return shows boarded door with 4-pane Yorkshire sash and renewed 4-pane sash with timber lintel above. Interior; walls 0.75 metre thick, old collar-beam trusses. The east part of the house may be an unusually easterly bastle. (Listed Building Report)
Not scheduled
This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law
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| OS Map Grid Reference | NZ089579 |
| Latitude | 54.9162406921387 |
| Longitude | -1.86172997951508 |
| Eastings | 408940 |
| Northings | 557950 |
