Annat Walls Farmhouse, Alston Moor

Has been described as a Questionable Bastle

There are major building remains

NameAnnat Walls Farmhouse, Alston Moor
Alternative Names
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishAlston Moor

Barn to the north of Annat Walls house is an adaptation of a pair of bastles. There is a datestone 'IW WW, 1707' on the eastern bastle. There is an illustration and plan of the structure. The farmhouse itself, altered in 1930, was formerly dated 1765 and was a bastle derivative, with two-storeys above a basement. (PastScape–ref. Perriam and Robinson)

Farmhouse and barn in style of a bastle.

An early 20th century postcard shows a house with external stone steps to first floor front door and a stone mullioned window similar to Windy Hall and Bunkershill. Peter Ryder adds; The farmhouse... altered c. 1930, was formerly dated '1765' and was a bastle-derivative house with two storeys above a basement; the front has been re-windowed but at the rear small chamfered loops with iron bars survive.' Attached to the house is a barn with a first floor doorway, which in the area, suggests a residence. (Perriam and Robinson 1998)

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY719450
Latitude54.7998199462891
Longitude-2.43774008750916
Eastings371900
Northings545000
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Books

  • Jessop, Lucy and Whitfield, Matthew, 2013, Alston Moor, Cumbria: Buildings in a North Pennines landscape (English Heritage) p. 32, 35, 40-1, 121, 132
  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 31

Other

  • Jessop, L., 2011, Annat Walls, Alston, Cumbria: Survey, History and Interpretation (English Heritage Research Department Reports series 64-2011)
  • Jessop, L. and Whitfield, M. 2010, The Parish of Alston Moor, Cumbria: Historic Area Assessment (English Heritage Research Department Reports series 64-2010) p. 27-31 online copy