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Bastle at Grandy's Knowe is a fortified farmhouse located in Northumberland, England, dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. The structure exemplifies the bastle-house type, a characteristic defensive building form developed in the Anglo-Scottish border region to protect against raid and livestock theft during a period of considerable lawlessness. The bastle combines domestic accommodation with integral security features, typically incorporating a vaulted ground floor for livestock storage and an upper chamber for human habitation, with walls constructed to withstand assault. This particular example represents an important survival of border vernacular architecture from the turbulent early modern period.
Bastle at Grandy's Knowe is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1016812. View the official record →
Bastle at Grandy's Knowe is a fortified farmhouse located in Northumberland, England, dating to the sixteenth or seventeenth century. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1016812.
Bastle at Grandy's Knowe is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic England (NHLE) — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in England. The official designation reference is 1016812.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Vindolanda (Chesterholm) Roman forts, civil settlement and cemeteries, adjacent length of the Stanegate Roman road and two milestones (1.6 km), Bean Burn 1 Roman temporary camp (2.8 km), Bean Burn 2 Roman temporary camp (2.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bastle at Grandy's Knowe's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Bastle at Grandy's Knowe stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone with subordinate sandstone and argillaceous rocks.