BORBIE CASTLE CIRCA 1/2 MILE NORTH-WEST OF COMB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370502
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: BORBIE CASTLE CIRCA 1/2 MILE NORTH-WEST OF COMB
Statutory Address:: BORBIE CASTLE CIRCA 1/2 MILE NORTH-WEST OF COMB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1370502
Date first listed:: 07-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: BORBIE CASTLE CIRCA 1/2 MILE NORTH-WEST OF COMB
Statutory Address 1:: BORBIE CASTLE CIRCA 1/2 MILE NORTH-WEST OF COMB

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BORBIE CASTLE CIRCA 1/2 MILE NORTH-WEST OF COMB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Tarset
National Grid Reference:: NY 76153 90991

Details

TARSET COMB NY 79 SE 762909 23/84 Borbie Castle c.1/2 mile north- west of Comb (formerly listed as Barty's Pele) II

Ruined bastlehouse. C16 or early C17. Large blocks of random rubble. Walls standing from c.8-15 feet high, c.57 inches thick. Ground-floor doorway, in north gable end, has alternating-block surround with rounded arrises, and relieving arch of which only one voussoir remains. A slit window in the south gable end. Inside the doorway is rebated and has hole for harr post and drawbar tunnels. The springing of the vault remains.

Listing NGR: NY7615390991

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Legacy System number:: 239744
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.