The Loan |
| Hob Uid: 12895 | |
Location :
Cumbria
Carlisle
Bewcastle
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| Grid Ref : NY5611078500 |
| Summary : Ruins of a bastle known as The Loan, not to be confused with the house of the same name. The building survives as a roofless structure, formerly of two storeys but now standing to ground floor height only. Incorporated into the remains of the bastle is a two-roomed post-medieval cottage. It is located on level ground 120 metres south east of The Flatt farmhouse at a spot where the enclosed fields originally met the rough upland pasture. The bastle was constructed in the late 16th century of calciferous sandstone rubble and originally measured 5 metres by 4 metres internally. Only the south west wall now survives to any great height above ground level, standing 2.3 metres high and 1.2 metres thick. At an unrecorded date the bastle was converted into a single-storey two-roomed cottage by extending the original building on the north east side to give the new structure external measurements of circa 9 metres by 5.3 metres. The walls of the cottage are 0.6 metres thick and stand up to 2.3 metres high. It was originally roofed in turf over which corrugated iron was later placed; the roof has collapsed in recent years. |
More information : (NY 56117850) Peel (NR) (Remains of) (NAT) (1)
At The Loan is a group of buildings now mostly deserted. All that survives of a bastle is the end wall, which now forms the end of a 19th century stone built cottage, measuring 29.75 feet by 17.5 feet (see plan). In the middle is a doorway with chamfered and rebated jambs and lintels, and tunnels for a drawbar. (2)
Description correct - see photograph. (3)
(NY 56117850) Bastle (NR) (remains of) (NAT) (4)
Listed with plan and photograph. (5)
Listed as a bastle by Cathcart King. (7) |