Fell Foot and Fell Foot Cottage, Wall

Has been described as a Possible Bastle, and also as a Possible Urban Defence

There are masonry ruins/remnants remains

NameFell Foot and Fell Foot Cottage, Wall
Alternative Names
Historic CountryNorthumberland
Modern AuthorityNorthumberland
1974 AuthorityNorthumberland
Civil ParishWall

Fell Foot and Fell Foot Cottage are a pair of houses on the east side of the village green. At first sight the buildings look of plain late 18th or 19th century character, but a closer inspection shows that the north west corner and part of the north gable are of large roughly squared stones, very much of bastle character; similar fabric appears in the lower courses of the south western quoin as well. There is said to be a 'Jacobean' fireplace, recently uncovered, in Fell Foot (Ryder 1994-5). (Northumberland HER)

Gatehouse Comments

One of a number of strongly built houses and bastles around the original large green, now somewhat encroached upon, of Wall village which, as a group, make the whole village defensible.

- Philip Davis

Not scheduled

Not Listed

County Historic Environment Record
OS Map Grid ReferenceNY917690
Latitude55.0156211853027
Longitude-2.12988996505737
Eastings391790
Northings569020
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Books

  • Grint, Julia, 2008, Bastles an introduction to the bastle houses of Northumberland (Hexham: Ergo Press) p. 137-45
  • Ryder, Peter, 2004, 'Towers and bastles in Northumberland National Park' in Frodsham, P., Archaeology in the Northumberland National Park (CBA Research report 136) p. 262-271
  • Dodds, John F., 1999, Bastions and Belligerents (Newcastle upon Tyne: Keepdate Publishing) p. 353

Other

  • Ryder, P.F., 1994-5, Towers and Bastles in Northumberland Part 4 Tynedale District Vol. 2 p. 152