Bastle House is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Bastle house.
Bastle House
- WRENN ID
- sheer-bracket-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Bastle house
- Address
- Bastle House, Askerton
- OS grid reference
- NY 586 753
- Coordinates
- 55.07113, -2.64918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bastle House is a structure dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, built from grey calciferous sandstone rubble. It features three extremely thick walls on the ground floor, which are remnants of a former two-storey house. The fourth wall has been rebuilt and includes original chamfered and rebated jambs, with a drawbar tunnel that forms the current entrance. An interior dividing wall is a later addition, and the end wall appears to have been gabled, likely for use as a shieling hut. At the time of the survey, the building was in a ruinous condition.
Local climate
Bastle House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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