Longlee, Wark

Has been described as a Possible Bastle

There are uncertain remains

NameLonglee, Wark
Alternative Names
Historic CountryNorthumberland
Modern AuthorityNorthumberland
1974 AuthorityNorthumberland
Civil ParishWark

Recorded by MacLauchlan in a list of local 'Pele Towers' given to him by an old resident.

Gatehouse Comments

Most of these 'towers' actually were bastles or pele-houses. The location is entirely consistent with a pele-house type bastle. It is unlikely as the site of a gentry status dwelling. Can not be the bastle at Mortley, which is separately listed. Nothing is recorded in PastScape or Keys to the Past (the online Northumberland HER). Longlee is farm south of Warks Burn. The 'Pele Tower' (probably a bastle) reported to MacLauchlan presumably was at, or very near to, the site occupied by this farm. The farm is shown as an L shaped building on the OS map of 1866, and this building seems to still survive. Has this building been surveyed? Does it contain any remnants of a bastle, particularly the building at the east end of the long east-west range?

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY830766
Latitude55.0842208862305
Longitude-2.26779007911682
Eastings383000
Northings576670
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Books

  • MacLauchlan, H., 1867, Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland: taken during a survey made by direction of the Duke of Northumberland (London) p. 73n online copy