West Wing Cottage joins a 'castle' and an 18th century farmhouse as one of the few places to stay in this remote part of ...

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 ...

This five-bedroom riverside home in north England's Northumberland was built in the 16th century as a means of protection against livestock thieves, known as reivers. —Nick Clayton Nick Clayton ...

Shittleheugh Bastle, near Otterburn, is thought to be a 16th Century bastle house built to repel border raiders. Late last year specialist craftsmen used lime mortar to restore parts of the structure ...

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 ...

One of the most unique places to stay near Hexham is West Wing Cottage, a Grade II listed stone building that was once the wing of a bastle house - a type of fortified farmhouse historically found ...