High Shaw Bastle is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1953. Bastlehouse.
High Shaw Bastle
- WRENN ID
- floating-marble-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1953
- Type
- Bastlehouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
HEPPLE HIGH SHAW NY 99 NW 936983 5/34 High Shaw Bastle (formerly listed as Pele nearly ½ mile WNW 21.10.53 of the Raw (in Woodside Parish) II
Bastlehouse. C16 or early C17. Massive coursed rubble. Only the ground floor remains. c.40 x 24 ft. c.12 ft. high. Ground-floor doorway in east gable end has chamfered alternating-block surround with relieving arch over. Above the ground floor a chamfered string course - the only bastle to posses this feature. Triangular opening, probably a gun loop, in east end.
Interior: walls c.64 inches thick. Segmental tunnel vault with ladder hole only c.12 inches square. Doorway is rebated and has drawbar holes. In west wall a roughly-made recess with a vertical shaft in the thickness of the wall and a well-dressed triangular opening through the wall, possibly a gun loop (cf exterior).
Shielings and Bastles: Ramm, Mercer & McDowall: HMSO: 1970.
Listing NGR: NY9358298251
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