Newbiggin Hill Cottage Bastle
Has been described as a Certain Bastle
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | Newbiggin Hill Cottage Bastle |
| Alternative Names | |
| Historic Country | Northumberland |
| Modern Authority | Northumberland |
| 1974 Authority | Northumberland |
| Civil Parish | Hexhamshire Low Quarter |
Solitary form bastle, measures 9.5 x 6.9m, with walls 1.06m thick. Byre entrance in gable end; first floor beamed ceiling; and first floor door in long wall. Present state - house (Ryder 1990).
Newbiggin Hill Cottage is a much altered bastle, extended to the east and north, but reduced in height. The old part of the building, 9.5m by 6.9m externally, has walls of heavy rubble a little over 1m thick; there is a boulder plinth on the west and north. The south wall has a basement slit (blocked) set east of centre; at a higher level a large stone appears to be part of the east jamb of the upper doorway, set a little west of centre. The owner states that the east end of the original building was removed when the house was extended (in the 1970s); it contained a central doorway with a straight lintel, and a drawbar tunnel in the jamb (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)
Not scheduled
Not Listed
County Historic Environment Record
| OS Map Grid Reference | NY937607 |
| Latitude | 54.9415092468262 |
| Longitude | -2.09914994239807 |
| Eastings | 393740 |
| Northings | 560770 |
