High Close Bastle, Allendale
Has been described as a Certain Bastle
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | High Close Bastle, Allendale |
| Alternative Names | Housty East |
| Historic Country | Northumberland |
| Modern Authority | Northumberland |
| 1974 Authority | Northumberland |
| Civil Parish | Allendale |
Measures 9m x 6.5m overall, side wall 0.9m thick, end wall with byre entrance 1.1m thick. Simple square-headed byre door (Ryder 1984).
The bastle has measured c.8.9m by 6.5m externally, with walls 0.9m-1.1m thick of the usually roughly coursed large rubble. The byre doorway, in the centre of the east end, has a straight monolithic lintel; it is walled up, hiding any evidences of drawbar tunnels etc. The only other feature visible is a splayed loop in the centre of the west end; the upper parts of the walls have fallen. At the east end of the bastle a short length of field wall links it to the footings of a second rectangular building, similar in size but with walls only 0.65m thick; a short length of more massive wall extends northwards from near its west end, and clearly pre-dates the thin walled building; this may be a fragment of a second bastle (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | NY838573 |
| Latitude | 54.9101295471191 |
| Longitude | -2.25229001045227 |
| Eastings | 383800 |
| Northings | 557300 |
