Kirkhaugh Farm Bastle 2

Has been described as a Certain Bastle

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameKirkhaugh Farm Bastle 2
Alternative Names
Historic CountryNorthumberland
Modern AuthorityNorthumberland
1974 AuthorityNorthumberland
Civil ParishKnaresdale with Kirkhaugh

Solitary bastle, 10.5m long x 6.5m wide. Byre entrance at gable end (Ryder 1986).

The farm of Kirkhaugh lies low on the west side of the valley of the South Tyne. A detached farmbuilding range to the north east incorporates a bastle (Kirkhaugh II). The bastle measures 10.6m by 6.4m externally, with later additions at each end. At the time of survey the interior of the building was full of hay. Visible features are a square-headed and chamfered doorway in the centre of the west wall, with an odd rectangular cavity (perhaps a quenching hole?) above, and a splayed loop in the centre of the east end. There is a later barn doorway in the centre of the north wall, with a slit vent, probably contemporary, on either side of it (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)

Not scheduled

Not Listed

Historic England (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s)
County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY693499
Latitude54.8433418273926
Longitude-2.47822999954224
Eastings369385
Northings549942
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Books

  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 385

Other

  • Ryder, P.F., 1994-5, Towers and Bastles in Northumberland Part 4 Tynedale District Vol. 2 p. 118-9
  • Ryder, P.F., 1986, Pers. comm. to Northumberland HER