Cross House, Allendale
Has been described as a Possible Bastle
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
Name | Cross House, Allendale |
Alternative Names | |
Historic Country | Northumberland |
Modern Authority | Northumberland |
1974 Authority | Northumberland |
Civil Parish | Allendale |
Measures 8.6m x 6.4m overall, much altered. Range of 17th century(?) buildings to the south includes one doorway with elliptical-arched head, but again much altered (Ryder 1984)
Cross House has massive rubble masonry and megalithic quoins of typical bastle type; the walls appear to be at least 1m thick. Externally the building measures 8.63m by 6.4m; the house has been completely remodelled within the last 20 years and no old features, other than the masonry, are visible. There is a later outshut on the north and an adjacent range of farmbuildings at the west end; these are of some age in themselves and have one door with an elliptical arched head cut from a single block (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)
Bastle 8.4 m by 6.4 m, much altered. Range of seventeenth century (?) buildings to south included one elliptical-arched doorway. (Ryder 1992)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid Reference | NY820564 |
Latitude | 54.9021110534668 |
Longitude | -2.28239011764526 |
Eastings | 382020 |
Northings | 556490 |