Akeld Bastle and Attached Walling to South is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Animal shelter, bastle.
Akeld Bastle and Attached Walling to South
- WRENN ID
- fallen-loggia-owl
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Animal shelter, bastle
- OS grid reference
- NT 957 294
- Coordinates
- 55.55834, -2.06867
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Akeld Bastle is a late medieval building that has been repurposed as an animal shelter. The upper storey was likely rebuilt in the late 16th or 17th century. It features random rubble walls that are 5 feet thick, with dressed stone quoins, and a Welsh slate roof. The structure is two storeys tall, measuring approximately 62 by 25 feet.
The original doorway is located to the right of the long west wall and has a chamfered surround with drawbar holes, along with a relieving arch above it. There is a later door to the left of this entrance. The first floor has three small shuttered windows, and the building has a gabled roof with flat raised coping.
On the right side, there is a double outside stone stair leading to a boarded door on the first floor. The left side features four slit windows on the ground floor, with a dovecote above that includes five stone alighting ledges and twelve holes in stone screens.
Inside, the bastle boasts an impressive high round tunnel vault. Attached to the right side of the building is a field wall that stretches approximately 100 yards south. This wall is very robust, over 5 feet high, has a noticeable batter, and may partly represent the former barmkin.
Local climate
Akeld Bastle and Attached Walling to South receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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