Whiteley Shield |
| Hob Uid: 16180 | |
Location :
Northumberland
West Allen
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| Grid Ref : NY8024048150 |
| Summary : Ruined remains of a building, incorporating a bastle. Only parts of the end walls of the central section survive. Adjoining the east wall of this section is a 2 storey bastle, surviving to full height. To the west is an extension, formerly used as a byre with living accommodation over. Neither the original date of the building nor the dates of any subsequent additions or alterations are known. |
More information : NY 802481 North of Whiteley Shield farmhouse is a ruin representing at least three periods.
(i) A building 22 X 32 feet with walls 3 ft. thick has only the
lower parts of the two end walls standing.
(ii) Against the E. wall of (i) is a two-storey building of bastle
type still standing to its full height.
(iii) At the W. end of (i) are remains of an addition, 18ft.
long,which is stated by the farmer to have been a byre with living accommodation above. (See Type-site NY 88 SE 14) (1)
NY 80244815. The remains of a defended house as described by the Commission. It is now impossible to tell which of the three building phases is the original, or to ascribe any sort of date.
See photograph. (2)
Listed by Dodds. (3)
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