Cumwhitton Low Northsceugh

Has been described as a Possible Bastle

There are no visible remains

NameCumwhitton Low Northsceugh
Alternative NamesNethernorskue
Historic CountryCumberland
Modern AuthorityCumbria
1974 AuthorityCumbria
Civil ParishCumwhitton

Site of three stonehouses or bastles at Low Northsceugh documented in 1603:

NY528488. Nethernoscue. 'Three tenemts beinge stonehouses... Lane Myers hath the tenemt most eastward...Robt Watson the middle...Jo Nicholson the tente most west...' (PastScape–ref. Perriam and Robinson)

Gatehouse Comments

Transcribed as Nethernoscue in PastScape but actually written as Nethernorskue in Perriam and Robinson. Was this a terrace of three 'pele-houses' or three separate buildings close together? Two adjoining pele-houses is fairly common, three is certainly possible.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY528488
Latitude54.8324699401855
Longitude-2.73688006401062
Eastings352800
Northings548800
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Books

  • Perriam, Denis and Robinson, John, 1998, The Medieval Fortified Buildings of Cumbria (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 29) p. 164

Primary Sources

  • Graham, T. H. B. (ed.). 1934, The barony of Gilsland. Lord William Howard's survey, taken in 1603 (Feild-Booke yt explaines all the Map Booke for Gilsland taken in 1603) (Kendal: CWAAS Extra Series 16)