The Bastle is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Bastlehouse. 1 related planning application.
The Bastle
- WRENN ID
- sharp-postern-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Bastlehouse
- Address
- The Bastle, Rochester, NE19 1RB
- OS grid reference
- NY 832 985
- Coordinates
- 55.28101, -2.26525
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bastle is a bastlehouse dating from the 16th or early 17th century, with alterations made in the late 18th or early 19th century. It is constructed of random rubble with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and comprises two bays. A 20th-century glass porch is located on the right side. Above the porch is a sash window within the roll-moulded surround of the original first-floor doorway. To the left are two sash windows set in alternating-block surrounds. The gabled roof has flat coping and a corniced stack at the left end.
On the right return, the original ground-floor doorway is now a window, retaining its roll-moulded jambs, a renewed lintel, and the original relieving arch. At the rear, a chamfered slit window is visible on the first floor. The walls are approximately 4 feet thick.
Local climate
The Bastle receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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 — 2 transactions since 2022
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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