Old Schoolhouse Bastle, Snitter
Has been described as a Certain Bastle
There are masonry ruins/remnants remains
| Name | Old Schoolhouse Bastle, Snitter |
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| Historic Country | Northumberland |
| Modern Authority | Northumberland |
| 1974 Authority | Northumberland |
| Civil Parish | Snitter |
House, the right part originally a bastle house. Later a school and school- master's house. C16 and early C19. Random rubble, especially large in older parts, and tooled-and-margined ashlar dressings.
2 storeys. 2 sections. Left 3 bays early C19. C20 conservatory and sash windows.
Right section has bastle masonry on ground floor, largely rebuilt C18 or early C19 above. On ground floor C20 glazed door and 3 renewed 16-pane sashes. On 1st floor two 16-pane sashes. Gabled roof with left end stack and 2 ridge stacks.
To rear a blocked ground-floor doorway with alternating-block surround. Immediately above, the very worn doorstep of the 1st-floor doorway (cf. Leam Bastle, Corsenside Parish, Tynedale Dist.) Interior: Walls c.42 inches thick on ground floor. The lower part of a finely-cut stone newel stair remains. (Listed Building Report)
The house incorporates a bastle, heightened and extended to the west in the 19th century. The north wall shows typical bastle masonry and the north west quoins of the original building, as well as a blocked square-headed doorway that may be contemporary. Interior not seen (Ryder 1994-5).
North end is a bastle of c.1600 with, internally, the lower part of a spiral stair (Pevsner 1992). (Northumberland HER)
Not scheduled
This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law
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| OS Map Grid Reference | NU024034 |
| Latitude | 55.3249588012695 |
| Longitude | -1.96271002292633 |
| Eastings | 402460 |
| Northings | 603430 |
