More information : (Area NY 475524) Peel (GT) (Remains of) (1)
The remains of an ancient tower form the gable end of Coat House (Cote House) (2)
? Peel Tower (3).
The east gable of Coat House (modern) at NY 47565242, was undoubtedly also the external wall of an earlier building; but this, by itself, cannot be confirmed as the remains of a Peel tower by visual inspection. (4)
Cote House (NY 475524) cannot be equated with the ordinary bastles, but has features in common with them. The building is 91ft long and contains, under a level roof, a two-storey house
and single-storey outbuildings. The original straight range, 23ft
wide, has been enlarged by additions to the E, and the house has been thoroughly modernised. The extent to which the domestic part of the house was confined to the first floor is not now determinable. (5)
Cote House. Farmhouse, formerly bastle house. Late C16 or early C17. Large blocks of squared red sandstone to walls, covered with cement rendering at front, green slate roof, rendered brick chimney stacks. 2 storeys, 4 bays with single storeyed extension, built up the slope to the west, but under the same roof:
not a typical bastle house. Extremely thick walls, rendered to mask alterations, make it difficult to interpret, but basically as built with C18 and C19 window openings and C19 roof. N.B. The compass bearings given by the R.C.H.M. in Shielings and Bastles are wrong: for their east read north and south read east. Grade II*. (6)
Listed with plan. (7)
NY 475524. Cote House. Listed as a bastle by Cathcart King. (8) |