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Hill House bastle is a fortified farmhouse situated in Northumberland in the Border region of northern England. The structure dates from the sixteenth or seventeenth century, a period when such defensive dwellings were constructed throughout the Anglo-Scottish borderlands to protect residents and livestock from raids. The bastle comprises a stone-built tower house with associated enclosures, characteristic of the military architecture employed by farming communities in this frontier zone. Its physical remains represent an important example of the domestic fortification practices that developed in response to the chronic instability that defined Border life during the early modern period.
Hill House bastle and associated enclosures, 850m NNW of Sidwood Cottage is a scheduled monument protected by Historic England under reference 1010034. View the official record →
Hill House bastle is a fortified farmhouse situated in Northumberland in the Border region of northern England. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic England (NHLE) under reference 1010034.
Hill House bastle and associated enclosures, 850m NNW of Sidwood Cottage 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 1010034.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Two bastles, an 18th century farmhouse and associated enclosures at Black Middings (0.3 km), Romano-British farmstead, 330m north west of Sidwood Cottage (0.6 km), Shilla Hill bastle 350m west of Comb (0.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 15 strands of Hill House bastle and associated enclosures, 850m NNW of Sidwood Cottage'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.
Hill House bastle and associated enclosures, 850m NNW of Sidwood Cottage stands on Yoredale Group, bedrock that formed in the Bashkirian. The rock here is limestone, argillaceous rocks and subordinate sandstone, interbedded.