Whitton Farm North Cottage (The Gatehouse Record)

In the civil parish of Tosson.
In the historic county of Northumberland.
Modern Authority of Northumberland.
1974 county of Northumberland.
Medieval County of Northumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NU05860108
Latitude 55.30378° Longitude -1.90917°

Whitton Farm North Cottage has been described as a probable Bastle.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

Description

NU 05860108. 110m south east of Whitton Grange is the dwelling house referred to in NU00SE 33. It is a rectangular two-storeyed structure built of rough-shaped stones, raised upon foundations of large boulders. The walls are approximately 1.3m thick. The ground plan measures 11.9m east-west and 6.4m north-south. There are no original doors or windows extant. The gable ends and roof are modern. Outbuildings have been added to north, east and south sides. The dwelling is at present uninhabited. It is of the defended house type. Similar defended houses have been encountered at Gatehouses NY 788889. They had been assigned to the Tudor period (F1 ASP 30-JAN-1957).
Whitton Farm North Cottage. Now used for holiday accommodation, this is a two storeyed cottage 12m by 6.2m externally (not including recent outshuts on each side) on the west side of the farm. The lower parts of the side walls and west end are of large roughly-shaped blocks and around 1m thick (not 1.3m as stated above). The upper parts of the walls and the entire east end have been rebuilt in coursed stone. There are various blocked openings in the walls, but the only trace of one that might be original is the south jamb of a doorway set centrally in the west end, later replaced by a small square window blocked by the present stack. The wall thicknesses and the general character of the fabric strongly suggest the original building here was a bastle (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)

Sources of information, references and further reading

County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) N2976.

Periodical Articles
- Christopherson, R., 2011, 'Northumberland bastles: origin and distribution' Medieval Settlement Research Vol. 26 p. 21-33 (listed in appendix)
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Ryder, P.F., 1994-5, Towers and Bastles in Northumberland Part 1 Alnwick District p. 46

Most of the sites or buildings recorded in this web site are NOT open to the public and permission to visit a site must always be sought from the landowner or tenant.
It is an offence to disturb a Scheduled Monument without consent. It is a destruction of everyone's heritage to remove archaeological evidence from ANY site without proper recording and reporting.
Don't use metal detectors on historic sites without authorisation.

The information on this web page may be derived from information compiled by and/or copyright of Historic England, County Historic Environment Records and other individuals and organisations. It may also contain information licensed under the Open Government Licence. All the sources given should be consulted to identify the original copyright holder and permission obtained from them before use of the information on this site for commercial purposes.
The author and compiler of Gatehouse does not receive any income from the site and funds it himself. The information within this site is provided freely for educational purposes only.

The bibliography owes much to various bibliographies produced by John Kenyon for the Council for British Archaeology, the Castle Studies Group and others.

Suggestions for finding online and/or hard copies of bibliographical sources can be seen at this link.
Minor archaeological investigations, such as watching brief reports, and some other 'grey' literature is most likely to be held by H.E.R.s but is often poorly referenced and is unlikely to be recorded here, or elsewhere, but some suggestions can be found here.

The possible site or monument is represented on maps as a point location. This is a guide only. It should be noted that OS grid references defines an area, not a point location. In practice this means the actual center of the site or monument may often, but not always, be to the North East of the point shown. Locations derived from OS grid references and from latitude longitiude may differ by a small distance.
Further information on mapping and location can be seen at this link.

Please help to make this as useful a resource as possible by contacting Gatehouse if you see errors, can add information or have suggestions for improvements in functality and design.
Help is acknowledged.

Data >		County HER
Maps >	Streetmap	NLS maps	Where's the path	Old-Maps
Data/Maps >	Magic	V. O. B.	Geology	LiDAR	Open Domesday
Air Photos >	Bing Maps	Google Maps	Getmapping	ZoomEarth
Photos >	CastleFacts	Geograph	Flickr	Panoramio