More information : [Name NY 81505822] Old Town [T.I.] (1)
Old Town, where there are vestiges of several ancient pele-houses.(2)
Old Town is a farmhouse of a late period of construction built between the remains of two defended houses.
'A' NY81405821. The remains consists of the lower courses of the west wall and part of the north wall, ht. 2.2m. They are now incorporated into an outbuilding adjoining the farm house and used as a garage. 'B' NY 81435820. A two-storied building with rubble walls raised upon foundations of unshaped boulders, the original ground floor doorway in the east end has a Tudorshaped arch cut out of a massive lintel stone. Similar Defended Houses exist at Gatehouses, (NY 788890) and were dated 'Tudor'. (3)
Condition unchanged. (4)
NY 814581 Farmhouse incorporating two bastles. (See Type Site: NY 88 SE 14). (5)
Farmhouse, flanked by two bastles. The bastles date from the late 16/early 17th century; the farmhouse was rebuilt in the early 19th century. All are built of stone rubble with slate roofs. Listed Grade II. (6)
Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (7,8) |