Crew Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. A C16 Sheep pen, bastle house.
Crew Castle
- WRENN ID
- stark-lime-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 June 1984
- Type
- Sheep pen, bastle house
- Address
- Crew Castle, Bewcastle
- OS grid reference
- NY 568 778
- Coordinates
- 55.09343, -2.67767
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Crew Castle is a sheep pen that was formerly a bastle house, mentioned in 1583 as the residence of Will Noble. The structure is built from large blocks of calciferous sandstone rubble, resting on projecting plinth stones, and features large flush quoins. The walls are over 1.5 meters thick and stand to the height of the ground floor only. The south entrance has large jamb stones, while the north entrance is now blocked. The south and west walls likely contain gun loops, which are circular in section at their narrowest point and splayed on the outer wall. The north and east walls are covered with demolition rubble on the outside, and the floor has been concreted over. The listing excludes adjoining pens.
Local climate
Crew Castle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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