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Listed building outline: Akeld Bastle And Attached Walling To South 1042370

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Akeld Bastle And Attached Walling To South 1042370

• geometry: MULTIPOLYGON (((-2.068611 55.558270,-2.068573 55.558432,-2.068702...
• entry-date: 2013-01-29
• listed-building: 1042370
• name: Akeld Bastle And Attached Walling To South
• notes: NT 92 NE AKELD AKELD 8/4 Akeld Bastle and attached walling to south GV II* Bastle-house forerunner, now animal shelter. Late medieval, upper storey probably rebuilt late C16 or C17. Random rubble walls 5 ft. thick with dressed stone quoins. Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys c.62 x 25 ft. Original doorway to right of long west wall has chamfered surround with drawbar holes. Relieving arch over. Later door to left. 3 small shuttered windows on 1st floor. Gabled roof with flat raised coping. On right return a double outside stone stair to boarded 1st floor door. On left return 4 slit windows to ground floor. Dovecote above with five stone alighting ledges and 12 holes in stone screens. Interior has impressive high round tunnel vault. Field wall attached on right return and stretching c.1OO yards south is very substantially constructed, over 5 ft. high, has a pronounced batter and may partly represent the former barmkin. Northumberland County History Vol. Archeologia Aeliana 3rd Series IX (1913). ,
• reference: 1042370
• start-date: 1986-05-14