MONUMENT NO. 3770

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Ruined remains of a large fortified house, built circa 1584. The north and west walls and a stair turret comprise the standing remains. Built as a three storey main block with a projecting three storey stair tower.

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[NT 99813250] Bastle [L.B.] (Remains of) (1)

A ruined L-shaped bastle-house of 1584. Scheduled. (2-3)

Remains consist of the north and west walls, and a stair-turret. See G.P. AO55/295/6. (4)

Condition unchanged. (5)

McDowall and Mercer refer to the structure at Doddington as a large fortified building, not a bastle, although of the same rectangular form as bastles. This type of building probably represents the homes of men of higher social standing than the ordinary bastle-builder. (6)

NT 998 325. Bastle House. Scheduled No ND/68. (7)

Ruined remains of a large fortified house, built circa 1584. The north and west walls and a stair turret comprise the standing remains. Built as a three storey main block with a projecting three storey stair tower. Listed Grade II*. (8)

Dodds notes that the building is frequently referred to as a bastle, but that it was clearly superior to bastles. Of three storeys measuring 57 feet by 25 feet with a projection on one side housing stairs, and a parapet around the ridged roof. (9)

Cathcart King lists this as a bastle, but notes it as being a powerful specimen of its class. (10)

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( 1) Ordnance Survey Map (Scale / Date)

OS 1:2500 1965

( 2) by John Grundy et al 1992 Northumberland

The buildings of England Page(s)138

( 3) Scheduled Monument Notification

AMs.Eng & Wales 1965 83 (MOW)

( 4) Field Investigators Comments

F1 RDL 13-FEB-64

( 5) Field Investigators Comments

F1 DK 01-FEB-67

( 6) H G Ramm, R W McDowall and Eric Mercer 1970 Shielings and bastles

Page(s)61,63,67

( 7) English Heritage 1995 County list of Scheduled Monuments : March 1994

Northumbs March 1994 19 Page(s)19

(8) List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest

District of Berwick upon Tweed, 15-MAY-1986

(9) Dodds, JF 1999 Bastions and Belligerents: Medieval Strongholds in Northumberland

Page(s)79-81

(10) David J Cathcart King 1983 Castellarium anglicanum : an index and bibliography of the castles in England, Wales and the Islands. Volume II : Norfolk-Yorkshire and the islands

Page(s)358

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