Bastle House Circa 50 Yards North of Whitlees is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. House.
Bastle House Circa 50 Yards North of Whitlees
- WRENN ID
- errant-sandstone-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NY 959 926
- Coordinates
- 55.22796, -2.06456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bastle house, located about 50 yards north of Whitlees, is a building from the 16th or early 17th century that is currently used as a store. It has been reduced in height and re-roofed in the 19th century. The structure is made of massive random rubble with a boulder plinth and features a Welsh slate roof, measuring approximately 38 by 20 feet. There is a double door from the 18th or early 19th century to the right of the center. On the ground floor to the left, there is a small square window with a chamfered surround and a grid of four iron bars, along with a small square blocked window above it.
On the right side of the building, there is a blocked ground-floor doorway with a slightly chamfered alternating-block surround and a lintel that has a relieving arch above it.
Inside, the walls are about 54 inches thick up to approximately 7 feet, then offset by about 9 inches to support the first floor. There is a blocked gun loop on the west wall and remnants of a first-floor fireplace at the east end, along with two square recesses in the west end.
Local climate
Bastle House Circa 50 Yards North of Whitlees receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
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