Bastle-Type Building North-East of Hillcrest is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Bastle house. 1 related planning application.
Bastle-Type Building North-East of Hillcrest
- WRENN ID
- ragged-jamb-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Bastle house
- Address
- Bastle-Type Building North-East of Hillcrest, Tow House, Henshaw, NE47 7EQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 767 643
- Coordinates
- 54.97326, -2.36551
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is likely a bastle house, now used as a workshop. It probably dates to the late 16th and early 17th centuries and has undergone alterations since. The building is constructed of squared rubble with a corrugated-asbestos roof. It was probably originally two storeys high but now appears as a long, low, single-storey building. It features massive, roughly-squared quoins. An unusual feature is the doorway, which is set in the centre of the long wall rather than a gable end. The doorway has a large, roughly-squared jamb and lintel with a cambered top, chamfered inner edges, a deep rebate, and a drawbar socket. A boulder plinth and a partially-blocked window are visible on the right return. Modern openings have been added to the rear of the building. The roof is pitched.
Local climate
Bastle-Type Building North-East of Hillcrest sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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