Stable Cottage, Wall, Northumberland

This cottage was originally built as a bastle house in the 16th or early 17th century. A bastle house was a defended house with two or more storeys. Animals/livestock were kept on the ground floor. The entrance was on the first floor. Local tradition suggests that the house was used to shelter a Jacobite refugee in the early 18th century.

Location

Northumberland Wall

Period

Tudor (1485 - 1602)

Tags

bastle house defence rural Tudor (1485 - 1602)