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Templegarth

Has been described as a Questionable Bastle

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

Name	Templegarth
Alternative Names
Historic Country	Cumberland
Modern Authority	Cumbria
1974 Authority	Cumbria
Civil Parish	Farlam

Possible stonehouse. Probably built as a shieling.

Ipm 1485; 'There is also... a waste messuage called Templegarth... 100 acres of meadow... wch is nothing woorth by year...'

Leonard Dacre was admitted to the 'messuage' and in 1575 Thomas Carleton, land sergeant, held the 'tenement' for the Barony of Gilsland. By 1607 it was part of Geltsdale Farm and its repairs are recorded. There were six cottages here, and Census of 1841 records two families. By 1871 it was occupied by coal miners.

Now used as a bull pen. The structure is surrounded by large earthworks, partly the result of mineworking, partly the foundations of lost structures. The standing building exhibits at least five phases with the earliest associated with large scale squared rubble and the east door with mitred frame. (Perriam and Robinson 1998)

Gatehouse Comments

There doesn't appear to be anything to suggest this was a two storey building and, therefore, not really a pele-house bastle although it is similar in history and, by floor plan, form to many possible bastles.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record

maps.cumbria.gov.uk/eggp/eggp.aspx?dept=Environment&scriptname=1%20Historic%20Environment

OS Map Grid Reference	NY598597
Latitude	54.9305610656738
Longitude	-2.62772011756897
Eastings	359900
Northings	559700