Borrowdale Oak Cottage

Has been described as a Rejected Bastle

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameBorrowdale Oak Cottage
Alternative NamesRosthwaite
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishBorrowdale

Oak Cottage and adjoining barn II Cottage and adjoining barn. Late C17. Painted rendered walls on cobble plinth under graduated greenslate roof with rebuilt roughcast chimney stacks. Barn of slate rubble and split boulders with large flush slate quoins. 2 storeys, 3 bays with barn to left under common roof. C20 door in plain opening. Sash windows, those on upper floor with glazing bars, and smaller ground-floor fire window to left, all in plain reveals. Barn has plank door under C17 wooden mullioned opening. C19 barn extension to left has slit vents on 2 levels. Interior has C17 built-in panelled court cupboard and upper-floor C17 panelling. (Listed Building Report)

S. Denyer (1985), comments on the house held by the National Trust. She mentions an unpublished report by R. Leech of the Lancaster University Achaeological Unit 1983 on excavations carried out at the house, and includes a plan which shows a 1.5m thick south wall which included a newel stair. There appears to be no other evidence to support this as a fortified site. (Perriam and Robinson 1998)

Gatehouse Comments

The National Trust Historic Building and SMR record now dates the thick walled part of the house as a C18 extension, containing a spiral stair, to a C17 house.

- 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)
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County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY257147
Latitude54.5227012634277
Longitude-3.14901995658875
Eastings325730
Northings514767
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29)
  • Denyer, S., 1985, 'The National Trust's lesser buildings in Cumbria' in Jill Ivy and Peter Clack (eds), Making Sense of Buildings (CBA 3 Durham 7) p 73-87