Description

NY 88 SE BELLINGHAM HOLE

6/29 Hole bastle, 20 yards
north of Hole farmhouse

GV II*

Bastle house. C16. Long sides heightened and 1st floor windows added C18.
Random rubble 4½ ft thick with boulder plinth and stone slate roof. 2½ storeys.
35 ft by 22 ft. Original ground-floor doorway now blocked on left return and
later door inserted on right return. Slightly later stone outside stair to
original 1st floor doorway with chamfered surround and rebates for harr-hung
door. C18 windows to either side. 2 smaller original windows, re-set above
are 16 by 18 inches and have chamfered surrounds with holes for 2 vertical iron
bars. Similar window to rear and 2 slit windows on right return; also 5 pigeon
holes above alighting ledge in right gable.

Interior has barrel-vaulted ground floor with narrow ladder-hole to 1st floor.
Fireplace on 1st floor has timber lintel and square recess to right. Rustic
wood stair to attic.

Shielings and Bastles: Ramn, McDowell, Mercer. HMSO. 1970.

Listing NGR: NY8670584664

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546395

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Recommended Books

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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  For the Record