The Peel With Attached Cartshed

THROPTON THROPTON VILLAGE NU 00 SW (South side) 16/320 The Peel, with attached cartshed 21.10.53 (Formerly listed as Thropton Bastle) GV II

Bastle house, C16 or early Cl7, altered 1863. Large irregular rubble with cut dressings and heavy roughly-shaped quoins; cartshed rubble with tooled dressings. Welsh slate roof with C20 white brick stacks. Rectangular plan: 12.2 x 7.1 metres externally, with walls 1.50 metres thick. South elevation 3 storeys, 2 irregular bays: ground-floor windows of 1863 with rough-faced lintels and sills. Blocked slit between and traces of blocked opening on far left. 1st-floor windows in C18 tooled block surrounds; 3 small 2nd floor windows, the central with old chamfered surround and bar holes; all windows now C20 4-pane casements. Coped gables with stepped end stacks. West end shows traces of blocked 1st-floor window under relieving arch, and chamfered 2nd-floor loop. East end (now internal wall) shows central blocked byre entrance with rounded arrises to jambs and lintel and relieving arch above; 1st floor doorway above and to right has similar jambs and later head. North elevation shows original chamfered loop with bar holes in centre and small window, probably modification of an original loop, on right. To right is attached cartshed with hipped roof; boarded door and double doors on right return.

Interior: Ground floor has tall round-arched barrel vault, with original ladder hole near south-east corner and central cut-away section for C19 stair.

A well-preserved bastle house, carefully restored in recent years. Formerly known as West Farmhouse.

Late C20 extension to east is not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU0271102314