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Listed building outline: High Shaw Bastle 1041244

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High Shaw Bastle 1041244

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-2.102655 55.278285,-2.102474 55.278309,-2.102524...
• entry-date: 2013-01-29
• listed-building: 1041244
• name: High Shaw Bastle
• notes: HEPPLE HIGH SHAW NY 99 NW 936983 5/34 High Shaw Bastle (formerly listed as Pele nearly ? mile WNW 21.10.53 of the Raw (in Woodside Parish) II Bastlehouse. C16 or early C17. Massive coursed rubble. Only the ground floor remains. c.40 x 24 ft. c.12 ft. high. Ground-floor doorway in east gable end has chamfered alternating-block surround with relieving arch over. Above the ground floor a chamfered string course - the only bastle to posses this feature. Triangular opening, probably a gun loop, in east end. Interior: walls c.64 inches thick. Segmental tunnel vault with ladder hole only c.12 inches square. Doorway is rebated and has drawbar holes. In west wall a roughly-made recess with a vertical shaft in the thickness of the wall and a well-dressed triangular opening through the wall, possibly a gun loop (cf exterior). Shielings and Bastles: Ramm, Mercer & McDowall: HMSO: 1970. ,
• reference: 1041244
• start-date: 1953-10-21