Doddington Bastle is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. A Elizabethan Strong house.
Doddington Bastle
- WRENN ID
- gentle-string-lichen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Strong house
- Period
- Elizabethan
- OS grid reference
- NT 998 325
- Coordinates
- 55.58617, -2.00454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Doddington Bastle is a ruined strong house built in 1584 for Lord Grey. It is constructed from very large roughly-dressed stone, with dressed stone quoins and window surrounds. The building has a T-shaped layout, featuring a three-storey main block and a projecting three-storey gabled stair tower.
The main block measures approximately 60 feet by 25 feet. The west wall remains at full height, while the north wall stands to about 20 feet. There was a doorway to the right of the stair tower.
The stair tower is intact and features three slit windows on its south front. In the south-west corner, the remains of a parapet can be seen. At the rear, there are three large buttresses and a blocked door, along with two slit windows.
Inside the stair tower, there are remnants of a stone newel stair. On the ground floor, there is a large blocked segmental arch leading to a fireplace, and on the first floor, there is another fireplace with a flat lintel.
Local climate
Doddington Bastle 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 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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