Watch House Circa 20 Yards South West of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Watch house.
Watch House Circa 20 Yards South West of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- iron-barrel-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Watch house
- OS grid reference
- NU 108 339
- Coordinates
- 55.59923, -1.82956
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The watch house, located approximately 20 yards south-west of the Church of St. Mary, is a graveyard watch house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. The building is single storey and consists of one bay, with a boarded door situated in the gable end. There is a small square iron-barred window on the right side. The roof is gabled, and the structure is largely obscured by thick vegetation.
Local climate
Watch House Circa 20 Yards South West of Church of St Mary receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% 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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