Woodhouses Bastlehouse is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1953. Bastlehouse.
Woodhouses Bastlehouse
- WRENN ID
- still-solder-winter
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1953
- Type
- Bastlehouse
- Address
- Woodhouses Bastlehouse, Harbottle
- OS grid reference
- NT 965 002
- Coordinates
- 55.29669, -2.05539
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Woodhouses Bastlehouse is a bastlehouse dated 1602, associated with William Potte, who owned land in the area. However, the building may actually date from the 16th century, with the datestone possibly being an insertion.
The structure is built of random rubble and is largely roofless, though some stone slates remain. It stands two storeys high, measuring 37 feet by 25 feet. The ground floor features a door in the north gable end, which has a slightly chamfered alternating-block surround. Above the door is the inscribed datestone, topped with a short hoodmould and a relieving arch, an unusual arrangement that may also be an insertion.
On the long east side, there are two small slit windows on the ground floor and two square windows on the first floor, which have holes for iron bars. The west side includes two 19th-century four-light mullioned windows. A doorway on the first floor in the south gable is a 19th-century replacement.
Inside, the ground floor has a tunnel-vaulted ceiling, with later stone stairs that penetrate the vault in the southeast corner.
Local climate
Woodhouses Bastlehouse 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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