Today's Object of the Week is the remains of a bastle - one of many former farmhouse dwellings dotted across Northumberland. ONCE the home of a notorious hardman, today’s object is the ruined ...

PLANS have been submitted to convert a Grade II-listed site into holiday accommodation. The proposals, put forward by Elliott Architects Ltd, aim to transform the former bastle house and barns at ...

The house is a Bastle house, a type of fortified farmhouse with extremely thick walls for defence, built at an unstable time in British history. Sheep bone pegs keep the slate roof in place ...