Bayles Hill House

Has been described as a Certain Bastle

There are major building remains

NameBayles Hill House
Alternative Names
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishAlston Moor

Two bastles.

Bastle with external stair and later house with newel stair adjoining. (Perriam and Robinson)

Bayles Hill farmhouse is derived from a bastle, the latter forming the ground floor of the east side of the building. The house was extended to the west with a newel stair adjoining. (PastScape)

Gatehouse Comments

Although called two bastles by Perriam and Robinson the description and plan show one pele-house type bastle, with an external stair, and an adjoining house. Bastle measures 6m wide and about 12m long (the west wall has been removed when the house was built) door and windows on north side, byre door on centre of east end.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY706449
Latitude54.7982482910156
Longitude-2.45758008956909
Eastings370600
Northings544900
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Books

  • Jessop, Lucy and Whitfield, Matthew, 2013, Alston Moor, Cumbria: Buildings in a North Pennines landscape (English Heritage) p. 35, 41
  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 32 (plan)

Other

  • Jessop, L. and Whitfield, M. 2010, The Parish of Alston Moor, Cumbria: Historic Area Assessment (English Heritage Research Department Reports series 64-2010) p. 32 online copy