Cambo Pele (The Gatehouse Record)

Also known as, or recorded in historical documents as;
Post Office

In the civil parish of Wallington Demesne.
In the historic county of Northumberland.
Modern Authority of Northumberland.
1974 county of Northumberland.

OS Map Grid Reference: NZ02658566
Latitude 55.1647° Longitude -1.9592°

Cambo Pele has been described as a certain Bastle.

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains.

This is a Grade 2 listed building protected by law*.

Description

House of bastle character, C16, converted into shop 1818, minor alterations c.1880. Heavy rubble with large quoins, tooled dressings; stone slate roof. 3 storeys, 2 wide bays. Central double doors; shop front at left has central 12-pane sash between 4-pane sashes, lintel inscribed J.T. (John Trevelyan) 1818; 12-pane sash at right. 1st floor: late C19 sash in left bay with remains of original door to right; renewed 12-pane sash in right bay; small 4-pane casements on 2nd floor. Gables with moulded kneelers and overlapped slab coping, stepped and corniced end stacks. Left return has small window, blocked square window in chamfered surround above and 16-pane sash to 2nd floor. Rear wing in 2 sections; Mid C18 3-storey part (heightened in 1818) has Yorkshire sash set in blocked doorway with chamfered surround, inserted C19 sash above, similar gable. 2-storey part (heightened c.1880) has Yorkshire sashes and similar gable carrying small stepped and corniced stack. Interior altered, walls c.1.3m thick. The building, although apparently a bastle rather than a tower, appears to have been 3-storeyed from the first.

Sources of information, references and further reading

National Heritage List for England Listed Building number(s) 1370670
English Heritage (PastScape) Defra or Monument number(s) 20990.
County Historic Environment Record (formerly Sites and Monuments Record) number(s) N10402.

Websites (Gatehouse is not responsible for the content of external websites.)
- Structural Images of the North East
Books
- Geldard, Ed, 2009, Northumberland Strongholds (London: Frances Lincoln) p. 21
  Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 240-1
  Salter, Mike, 1997, The Castles and Tower Houses of Northumberland (Malvern: Folly Publications) p. 31
  Pettifer, A., 1995, English Castles, A guide by counties (Woodbridge: Boydell Press) p. 200 (slight)
  Pevsner, N., 1992 (revised by Grundy, John et al), Buildings of England: Northumberland (London, Penguin) p. 210
  Rowland, T.H., 1987 (reprint1994), Medieval Castles, Towers, Peles and Bastles of Northumberland (Sandhill Press) p. 78
  King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol. 2 p. 357
  Graham, Frank, 1976, The Castles of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Frank Graham) p. 95
  Ramm, H.G., McDowall, R.W. and Mercer, E., 1970, Shielings and Bastles (London: HMSO) p. 92-3, no.70
  Pevsner, N., 1957, Buildings of England: Northumberland (London) p. 110
  Long, B., 1967, Castles in Northumberland (Newcastle) 78
  Hugill, R.,1939, Borderland Castles and Peles (1970 Reprint by Frank Graham) p. 57-9
  Harvey, Alfred, 1911, Castles and Walled Towns of England (London: Methuen and Co)
  Hodgson, J.C., 1827, History of Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Part 2 Vol. 1 p. 281

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