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Monument Number 15515
Hob Uid: 15515
Location : Northumberland Melkridge
Grid Ref : NY7388063900
Summary : Site of a bastle-like fortified house at Melkridge, probably built in the early 17th century and demolished in 1955.
More information : "NY 73886390" (3) Bastle House, Melkridge, a pele tower, demolished in 1955, was probably early 17th c, and a very late example of a fortified building. See illustration card. (1-3) No visible remains. (4) NY 7363 Bastle (site of) (See Type-site NY 88 SE 14). Pulled down in 1954, the bastle measured 38 feet by 24 feet with walls 4 feet thick. It consisted of two full storeys, an attic and watch turret in the east gable. The ground floor had two loopholes, 5" in diameter, in splayed appertures. (5) The strong house was a rectangular building like a bastle but with three storeys and a look-out turret corbelled out from the top of its east gable.Its design was similar to the design at Haltwhistle Castle Hill, and was probably the work of the same builder between 1607 and 1611. (6)

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Source details : Northumberland 1957 211
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Source details : A Hist of the English House 1931 219 (illus) (N Lloyd)
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Source details : F1 FDC 28-DEC-56
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Source Number : 3a
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Source details : Rev W Watson, Haltwhistle
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Source details : F1 RWE 07-JUL-66
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Source details : Shielings and Bastles 1970 89 53 RCHM
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Monument Types:

Monument Period Name : Medieval
Display Date : Possibly built 1607-1611
Monument End Date : 1611
Monument Start Date : 1607
Monument Type : Fortified House, Bastle
Evidence : Demolished Building

Monument Period Name : 20th Century
Display Date : Demolished 1955
Monument End Date : 1955
Monument Start Date : 1955
Monument Type : Fortified House, Bastle
Evidence : Demolished Building

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External Cross Reference Source : National Monuments Record Number
External Cross Reference Number : NY 76 SW 13
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Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1956-12-28
End Date : 1956-12-28

Associated Activities :
Activity type : FIELD OBSERVATION (VISUAL ASSESSMENT)
Start Date : 1966-07-07
End Date : 1966-07-07

Historic England Research Records

Monument Number 15515