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Latitude: 54.8207 / 54°49'14"N
Longitude: -2.265 / 2°15'54"W
OS Eastings: 383067
OS Northings: 547349
OS Grid: NY830473
Mapcode National: GBR DDMP.FP
Mapcode Global: WHB32.53N6
Plus Code: 9C6VRPCM+7X
Entry Name: Hopehead Farmhouse and Adjacent Buildings
Listing Date: 23 August 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1155000
English Heritage Legacy ID: 240230
ID on this website: 101155000
Location: Northumberland, NE47
County: Northumberland
Civil Parish: Allendale
Traditional County: Northumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Northumberland
Church of England Parish: Allendale St Cuthbert
Church of England Diocese: Newcastle
Tagged with: Farmhouse
NY 84 NW ALLENDALE SWIN HOPE
21/110 Hopehead Farmhouse
and adjacent buildings
II
Bastle house late C16 or early C17, 2nd floor added late C17. Farmhouse and
barn to south-west C18 altered C19. Bastle rubble with roughly-shaped quoins,
C20 asbestos roof. House and barn rubble with cut quoins; stone slate roofs,
stone stacks. House 3 storeys, 2 wide bays. Groundflarhas inserted cart
entrance with timber lintel, flanked by blocked windows; 1st and 2nd floors
altered sashes. Barn to left 3 storeys, various openings. Bastle to right 3
storeys, 2 bays. 2nd floor has 2 square windows with chamfered surrounds, above
roof of later outbuilding. Recesses of 1st floor door and flanking windows
visible internally. Right return: bastle end wall has chamfered Tudor-arched
door with illegible lintel inscription. Rear elevation; house has outshut with
various openings. Bastle has small 1st floor window with chamfered surround;
to right enlarged ground-floor loop with inserted pitching door above. Interior
of bastle shows inserted C18 fireplaces and scar of earlier hood. Central
upper-cruck roof truss.
The bastle is one of the best preserved in Northumberland; the late C17
heightening is paralleled at Hole Bastle in Bellingham parish.
Listing NGR: NY8306747349
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