Description

NY 88 NE CORSENSIDE

2/57 Bastle house attached to
Brig farmhouse

II

Bastle house now used as byre and store. Late C16/early C17. Upper floor partly
rebuilt probably in C18. Openings altered C18. Random rubble 4½ ft thick with massive
quoins and boulder plinth. Welsh slate roof. 33 ft x 23 ft. 2 storeys. Ground floor
has later door, with flat reveals, to right; and original door, 30 inches wide with
splayed reveals, in centre. Original upper door also now a window is directly above
with 2 later windows left and right. One very small window on ground floor rear and C20
brick outside stair. Gabled roof with kneelers.

Interior has old wood lintels to original ground floor door and to all openings on front
of 1st floor. Corbels of former fireplace visible in ground floor and 3 square recesses
to sides of former fireplaces on 1st floor. C18 roof timbers with tie and collar beams.

Shielings and Bastles: Ramm, McDowall, Mercer. HMSO. 1970.

Listing NGR: NY8912089709

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26297035

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)