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Bastle at Horneystead is a fortified farmhouse situated in Northumberland, characteristic of the defensive domestic architecture developed in the Anglo-Scottish border region during the late medieval and early modern periods. The structure exemplifies the bastle type, a building form combining secure storage for livestock on the ground floor with domestic quarters above, designed to withstand the raids and lawlessness that plagued the borderlands. Built to protect both inhabitants and moveable property during an era of persistent border conflict, the bastle represents the practical responses of farming communities to insecurity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The survival of such structures provides important archaeological evidence for settlement patterns and domestic life in the turbulent border landscape.
Bastle at Horneystead, 400m south west of The Ash is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1009674. View the official record →
Bastle at Horneystead is a fortified farmhouse situated in Northumberland, characteristic of the defensive domestic architecture developed in the Anglo-Scottish border region during the late medieval and early modern periods. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1009674.
Bastle at Horneystead, 400m south west of The Ash 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 1009674.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including The vallum and early Roman road between the field boundary east of turret 34a and the field boundary west of milecastle 36 in wall miles 34, 35 and 36 (7.8 km), Stone circle, defended settlement, Romano-British farmstead and field system, Roman camp and group of shielings immediately south of Greenlee Lough (8.7 km), Housesteads fort, section of Wall and vallum between the field boundary west of milecastle 36 and the field boundary west of turret 37a in wall miles 36 and 37 (9.1 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Bastle at Horneystead, 400m south west of The Ash'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 Horneystead, 400m south west of The Ash stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.