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High Green Farm

Has been described as a Possible Bastle

There are no visible remains

Name	High Green Farm
Alternative Names	Highgreen Manor
Historic Country	Northumberland
Modern Authority	Northumberland
1974 Authority	Northumberland
Civil Parish	Tarset

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 consistant with a pele-house type bastle. It is unlikely as the site of a gentry status dwelling, despite the modern 'manor' name.This was, presuamably, at the site now occupied by High Green Manor, a grade 2 listed C19 'Country house with 2 cottages attached to rear. c.1885'. A building complex is marked on the OS six map published 1866 (surveyed 1862) before the construction of the "unexpected and exotic Victorian Chateau in the wildest of moorland settings" (Keys to the Past). This must have been a farmhouse and farm buildings. What form and date were these buildings? It seems unlikely that any part of these buildings will have survived the major works need to construct Highgreen manor, although the main body of the house does appear to sit directly on what was, presuamably, the farmhouse shown on the 1866 OS map.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law

Historic England Scheduled Monument Number

Historic England Listed Building number(s)

1044840

Images Of England

239749

County Historic Environment Record

www.keystothepast.info/article/10339/Site-Details?PRN=N13630

OS Map Grid Reference	NY808910
Latitude	55.2138900756836
Longitude	-2.30258989334106
Eastings	380853
Northings	591052