More information : A bastle built some time after the 1541 survey at Fallowlees. The foundations can still be traced. (1)
At Fallowlees are the ruins of a substantial pele or bastle house which has not been recorded but which no doubt was the refuge of William Veith the Covenanter. (2)
A messuage, now ruined, situated on a dodd, or conical hill, about half a mile SE of Fallowlees. (3)
NZ 01999435 The remains of a the building are incorporated into the garden wall and outbuildings ENE of the cottage called Fallowlees. Only the north and part of the west walls remain, but there are surface indications of the buried foundations of the south and east walls.The building was 12.9m long with an approximate width of 8.5m. The entrance appears to have been centrally placed in the south wall. The remains of the north and west walls are 1.1m thick and constructedof very large undressed stones. The only architectural feature remaining is in the west wall where there is a slit window, splayed internally and constructed of four massive stones occupying the whole thickness of the wall. The two remaining walls have a maximum height of 1.9m and are in fair condition.
The remains of those of a defended house similar to others in the region and dating from the late 16th early 17th centuries.
NZ 02679419. The ruin referred to by Hodgson is a steading 38.0m long and 6.0m wide with five cross divisions and a garth attached to the NW corner. It appears to have been a row of small cottages of no great age or archaeological interest. (4)
Condition unchanged. (5)
Scheduled (6)
Fallowlees bastle was built between 1541 and 1581. Listed by Cathcart King and by Dodds. (7,8) |