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© Mr Kenneth Robinson
IoE Number:
239745
Location:
BASTLE ON NORTH SIDE OF ROAD,
TARSET, TYNEDALE, NORTHUMBERLAND
Photographer:
Mr Kenneth Robinson
Date Photographed:
11 February 2003
Date listed:
07 January 1988
Date of last amendment:
07 January 1988
Grade
II*
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TARSET GATEHOUSE
NY 78 NE
31/85 Bastle on north
side of road
GV II*
Bastlehouse. C16 or early C17. Random rubble with Welsh slate roof. 2
storeys. c.40 x 25 ft. Stone stairs to original 1st-floor doorway which
has alternating-block surround with rounded arrises. Small chamfered window
to right with blind segmental-arch over. To left small square window with
chamfered surround. C19 gabled roof.
Original ground-floor doorway, in right gable end, has relieving arch over.
Interior: walls c.5 ft. thick. Rebated doorway with drawbar tunnels. Old
beams support 1st floor. Corbelled out at south-west end to support fireplace.
Ramm, McDowall, Mercer : Shielings and Bastles : HMSO: 1970.
Scheduled Ancient Monument. County Number 550.