Holehouse, Wark (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Hole House

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

OS Map Grid Reference: NY83237699
Latitude 55.08709° Longitude -2.26418°

Holehouse, Wark has been described as a probable Bastle.

There are uncertain remains.

Comments

Most of these 'towers' actually were bastles or pele-houses.
The location is entirely consistant with a pele-house type bastle. It is unlikely as the site of a gentry status dwelling. Can not be the bastle at Mortley, which is seperately listed.
Nothing is recorded in PastScape or Keys to the Past (the online Northumberland HER).
Hole House is marked as a rectangular east-west building on the 1862 OS map and as 'Hole House (In Ruins)' on the 1st edn 1:25,000 OS series (revised 1952). The appears to be nothing on the site now except a track leading to the site and some rough vegetation marking the site. The 'Pele Tower' reported to MacLauchlan is, most likely, to have been a bastle on the site occupied by Hole House and it is just possible the ruins seen in 1952 were partly this bastle. Do any foundations survive? Do these suggest the thick walls of a bastle?

Sources of information, references and further reading

Further information may be available from the holder of the county Historic Environment Record.

Books
- MacLauchlan, H., 1867, Notes not included in the memoirs already published on Roman roads in Northumberland: taken during a survey made by direction of the Duke of Northumberland (London) p. 73n online copy

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