The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1988. House.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- muted-brick-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1988
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, Ancroft
- OS grid reference
- NU 005 475
- Coordinates
- 55.72134, -1.99252
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house with attached outbuildings, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of dressed stone and features Lakeland slate roofs, while the outbuilding on the right has a pantiled roof and brick chimneys. The main building is two storeys high and has three bays, with single-storey, one-bay outbuildings on either side.
The central entrance consists of a boarded door with an overlight above it. To the right of the door is a 12-pane sash window, and to the left is a 20th-century tripartite sash window. Above the door, there is a shorter 12-pane sash window, and the outer bays contain 20th-century casement windows. The roof is very steeply pitched, featuring end stacks and reverse-stepped coping.
The outbuilding to the left has one small window and a blocked doorway positioned close to the side of the house. The outbuilding on the right has a boarded door in a similar location, and both outbuildings have steeply-pitched roofs with reverse-stepped coping.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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