Lookout Farmhouse with Attached Outbuilding to West is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. House.

Lookout Farmhouse with Attached Outbuilding to West

WRENN ID
ruined-hall-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1987
Type
House
OS grid reference
NZ 327 768
Coordinates
55.08467, -1.48897
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lookout Farmhouse, dating from the 17th century and remodelled in the mid-18th century, features a rear wing that was heightened in the late 19th century. The front is constructed of squared stone with tooled dressings, while the returns and outbuildings are made of rubble, and the rear wing is partly built of snecked stone. The building has a blue slate roof and is designed in an L shape, with two storeys and three symmetrical bays.

The central entrance consists of a flush-panelled door with a two-pane overlight, framed by a 19th-century raised stone surround that includes pilasters and a cornice. The windows are 12-pane sashes, with the lower ones set in inserted stone surrounds. The building features stepped and banded end stacks, and the returns display stepped gables with a pedimented raised centre-piece, which includes a blind lunette above a band. The right return has two small attic windows below the band, and to the right is the rear wing, which contains one ground-floor 12-pane sash window set in a double-chamfered surround of a 17th-century mullioned window.

To the left of the house is an outbuilding with a coped left gable, featuring a boarded door and double doors at the rear, both under timber lintels. The stepped pedimented gables reflect the influence of Vanbrugh's style, similar to that seen at Seaton Delaval Hall.

Local climate

Lookout Farmhouse with Attached Outbuilding to West receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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