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Description: | A well preserved 16th century bastle at Black Middings. The bastle remains largely intact, with only its roof missing, and measures 7.3 metres by 10.4 metres and stands circa 8 metres high to the gable ridge. Its walls are 1.4 metres thick and it illustrates the usual arrangement of a two storey structure with steeply pitched gables. The stumps of the original raised cruck roof survive. It is of the rarer type of bastle in which the ground floor had a timber ceiling instead of a vaulted stone roof. There are two doorways in the south west wall, one leading into the basement and the other into the upper floor. Both are 18th century replacements of original doorways and are wider than the 16th century doors would have been, since the defensive function of narrow doors was no longer necessary by that time. The upper floor was also heightened by incorporating two original windows whilst the original ladder access to the upper floor was replaced by an outer staircase. The bastle is both Scheduled and a Grade II* Listed Building. | Subjects: | Bastle Defence Domestic | Source: | English Heritage - Viewfinder | Creator: | National Monuments Record | Identifier: | http://pastscape.english-heritage.org.uk... | Language: | en | Go to resource |
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