Low Hayrake Farmhouse
Has been described as a Possible Bastle
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | Low Hayrake Farmhouse |
| Alternative Names | |
| Historic Country | Northumberland |
| Modern Authority | Northumberland |
| 1974 Authority | Northumberland |
| Civil Parish | Allendale |
Extensively altered recently, measures 9.3m x 6.3m overall. Side wall 0.95m thick, end wall 1.12m thick (Ryder 1984).
Low Hayrake lies on the north west side of the Swinhope Valley. The farmhouse, renovated in the early 1980s, is a bastle. It measures c.9.3m by 6.3m externally with walls 1m-1.2m thick of the usual heavy rubble with characteristic long quoins, above a boulder plinth. Traces of blocked openings in the front (south east) elevation relate to the sash windows which preceded the present late 20th century fenestration. Part of the sill of a two-light mullioned window has been reused close to the north east end of the wall. There are various blocked openings visible in the rear (north west) elevation, although none that are necessarily original to the building. A blocked doorway in the north east gable end, set right of centre, and only visible from within the adjacent farmbuilding has the lower part of one jamb chamfered, but a later timber lintel (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | NY836479 |
| Latitude | 54.826301574707 |
| Longitude | -2.25620007514954 |
| Eastings | 383630 |
| Northings | 547980 |
