ASHEYBANK FARMHOUSE, ALLENDALE
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Description
"...Asheybank stands at the brink of a steep slope dropping westward to the West Allen; a trackway of considerable age (sunken in places and lined by large blocks) drops down to it from Burnlaw ...It is not clear whether the building is a bastle or not; the doorway and windows of the south front look of early 19th century character, but remains of earlier mullioned windows are visible on both sides of the door; the outshut has chamfered windows of late 17th century type. At the south end of the building is a ruined barn of 18th or early 19th century date; a steep gable line visible above it (formed by stone slates embedded in the wall) in fact seems to relate to an earlier roof line of the house rather than the barn. Perhaps the most likely interpretation is that the end walls of a bastle (or of a pair?) survive, and that the side walls were rebuilt c.1700...." -
Owner
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Source
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Further information
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