Haltwhistle Bastle 2; The Dairy Shop (The Gatehouse Record)

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

OS Map Grid Reference: NY70746410
Latitude 54.97066° Longitude -2.45842°

Haltwhistle Bastle 2; The Dairy Shop has been described as a probable Bastle.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*.

Description

Probably a bastle house; converted and extended and now shops/offices with storage above. Late C16-early C17 , enlarged in early C18 and C19. Painted roughcast masonry, pantiled roof and brick chimney stacks. Tall 3-storey block of 3 wide bays. Huge boulder plinth and bastle-type masonry on right return. Off-centre replaced door and overlight in stone surround under bracketed wooden hood. Door flanked by C20 glazed shop fronts. Replaced sashes on first floor: 2 windows at right in smaller openings. 12-pane sashes on second floor: 2 sashes at right have thick glazing bars. Roof has swept eaves, coped right gable and shaped kneeler. Rebuilt ridge stack. Wide pebble-dashed right end stack with water table and top ledge. C19 additions on rear. (Listed Building Report)

Solitary form bastle, 9 x 6m externally, with side walls 1.25m thick. Byre entrance in gable end; first floor form - beamed ceiling (Ryder 1990).
The Dairy Shop. A covered passage between a two storey two bay house and linked to T C Video by a covered entry with heavy old beams reused above it. The walls of the building are obviously of considerable thickness, as shown by the heavy cast iron pillars within the shop front, inserted to carry the weight of the wall above. Interior not seen (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1156122
County Historic Environment Record (or Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) N6699.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- CastleUK.net
Books
- King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 349
  Hodgson, J., 1840, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Part 2 Vol. 3 p. 120 online copy
Other sources: Theses; 'grey' literature; in-house reports; unpublished works; etc.
- Northumberland County Council, 2009, 'Haltwhistle' Northumberland Extensive Urban Survey doi:10.5284/1000177 download copy
  Ryder, P.F., 1994-5, Towers and Bastles in Northumberland Part 4 Tynedale District Vol. 2 p. 80
  Ryder, P.F., 1990, Bastles and Towers in the Northumberland National Park (Report for Northumberland National Park Authority) p. 6

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