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Bastle House
Bastle Houses are generally two-storey fortified farmhouses, with living accommodation on the first floor and shelter for cattle and sheep on the ground floor. They were built around the Anglo-Scottish border areas, during times of frequent attacks and raids by the Border Reivers, and hostilities between England and Scotland. Typically, Bastle Houses were homes and refuges for rich freeholders, lairds and heads of Border clans. Bastles were often built in clusters, so that the inhabitants were within easy reach of their neighbours, providing support for each other. Some of the more wealthy landowners had Pele Towers, which were taller than bastles, usually with three or four storeys.
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Bastle House, Cambo
- Overview Street View A 16th century bassle house in Cambo, Northumberland. In 1818 it was converted into shop and still has a lintel above the former shop window inscribed "J.T. …
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Pele Tower
- Pele towers were fortified houses built along both sides of the English and Scottish borders, mostly in settlements which did not have a castle. An English Act of Parliament in …
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Rebellion House, High Callerton
- Overview Map Street View Rebellion House is a 16th century bastle house in High Callerton, near Ponteland. The ground floor was converted for use as accommodation in the early-mid 17th century. …
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Bridge End, Cowshill
- Overview Map Bridge End Cottage in Cowshill, is located by a footbridge over Killhope Burn and immediately south of the flooded Copthill Quarry. The cottage is notable for being a …
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Redheugh Farmhouse, nr Thorneyburn
- A 16/17th century bastle house, later remodelled in 1732, for William Charlton. Redheugh Farmhouse is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.
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Black Middens Bastle House
- Overview About Black Middens Bastle Map Street View Black Middens Bastle House is at an isolated location on the north side of the Tarset Valley, about 2 miles north-west of …
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Bellister Castle
- Overview Map Street View Bellister Castle is a ruined tower house dating from the 13th century with an attached occupied house which is dated 1669.[1] It is located about half …
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Redesdale Arms
- Overview Map Street View The Redesdale Arms is a hotel and restaurant located on the A68 road at Horsley, about 3½ miles north-west of Otterburn and 1 mile south-east of …
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Clarghyll Hall
- Overview Map Clarghyll Hall is a country house located about 2 miles north east of Alston in Cumbria, close to the county border with Northumberland. The house incorporates a 16th …
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Monk Farm
- Overview Map The Monk Farm stands on the east side of the valley of the River West Allen in Northumberland, at the head of a steep slope. It is about …
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White Heather Cottage, Beltingham
- Overview Map Street View White Heather Cottage, no.2 Beltingham Village, is a former Bastle House, dating from the late 16th or early 17th century. It was remodelled in the 18th …
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Bastle House, Cambo
- Overview Street View A 16th century bassle house in Cambo, Northumberland. In 1818 it was converted into shop and still has a lintel above the former shop window inscribed "J.T. …
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Pele Tower
- Pele towers were fortified houses built along both sides of the English and Scottish borders, mostly in settlements which did not have a castle. An English Act of Parliament in …
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Rebellion House, High Callerton
- Overview Map Street View Rebellion House is a 16th century bastle house in High Callerton, near Ponteland. The ground floor was converted for use as accommodation in the early-mid 17th century. …
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Bridge End, Cowshill
- Overview Map Bridge End Cottage in Cowshill, is located by a footbridge over Killhope Burn and immediately south of the flooded Copthill Quarry. The cottage is notable for being a …
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Redheugh Farmhouse, nr Thorneyburn
- A 16/17th century bastle house, later remodelled in 1732, for William Charlton. Redheugh Farmhouse is Grade II listed on the National Heritage List for England.
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Black Middens Bastle House
- Overview About Black Middens Bastle Map Street View Black Middens Bastle House is at an isolated location on the north side of the Tarset Valley, about 2 miles north-west of …
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Bellister Castle
- Overview Map Street View Bellister Castle is a ruined tower house dating from the 13th century with an attached occupied house which is dated 1669.[1] It is located about half …
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Redesdale Arms
- Overview Map Street View The Redesdale Arms is a hotel and restaurant located on the A68 road at Horsley, about 3½ miles north-west of Otterburn and 1 mile south-east of …
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Clarghyll Hall
- Overview Map Clarghyll Hall is a country house located about 2 miles north east of Alston in Cumbria, close to the county border with Northumberland. The house incorporates a 16th …
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Monk Farm
- Overview Map The Monk Farm stands on the east side of the valley of the River West Allen in Northumberland, at the head of a steep slope. It is about …
