Hexham House is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. House. 4 related planning applications.
Hexham House
- WRENN ID
- silver-corner-wax
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hexham House, Gilesgate, NE46 3NH
- OS grid reference
- NY 934 642
- Coordinates
- 54.97264, -2.10375
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hexham House is a Grade II* listed building dated 1723, featuring later wings. The main garden front faces southwest and consists of three storeys with five windows, flanked by two-storey wings that each have two windows. The structure is built of ashlar stone with quoins on the sides of the main block, the center bay, and the southeast wing. It has a moulded string course above the first and ground floors, a cornice, and a parapet, along with stone chimneys. The windows are glazing bar sash types. A projecting porch supported by piers features a reeded door surround leading to a glazed door. Inscribed on the lintel above this door are "T.A." over "Has Aedes struxit" over "1723". Inside, there are panelled rooms facing the garden, and the left-hand wing is recessed and constructed of rubble with some alterations on the ground floor. The right-hand (southeast) wing, built of ashlar around 1840, includes a cornice and blocking course, and features rich plasterwork inside, including a coved ceiling in the garden front room.
The street front shows the wings projecting, with the right-hand wing (northwest) being brick-built and connected to the center by a narrow one-window annexe. This wing also has a kidney-shaped lead rainwater head with a mask in relief and a box above displaying the arms of Durham Abbey. The southeast wing is made of ashlar, while the center section is also ashlar with three windows featuring raised surrounds, a cornice, and a parapet. There is a closed porch with a six-panel door in the center.
Hexham House, along with Nos 2 to 8 (even) and the wall to the bowling green, forms a group.
Local climate
Hexham House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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