Farm Buildings to West of Horton Grange Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Farm buildings.

Farm Buildings to West of Horton Grange Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winding-rotunda-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Farm buildings
Address
Farm Buildings to West of Horton Grange Farmhouse, New Horton Grange, Stannington
OS grid reference
NZ 198 755
Coordinates
55.07387, -1.69024
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farm buildings to the west of Horton Grange Farmhouse were constructed around 1858, with a dovecot dated 1863 on its lintel. They were built for Sir Matthew White Ridley. The buildings are made of coursed squared sandstone, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings, and are topped with Welsh slate roofs that have stone gable copings.

The layout includes a courtyard with granaries and a central corn drier on the north side, flanked by hemmels in front of storage sheds. The south side is enclosed by a low range that features a central square dovecot, along with two detached turnip houses in the yard. The buildings are primarily one storey, with the north range being higher and a three-storey tower on the south range. The north range has five bays, with three-bay wings, while the south range consists of seven bays. The turnip houses are one storey and one bay each.

Notable architectural features include a central pediment with a blind roundel above a sliding door in the north range, flanked by two square lights with glazing bars. There are elliptical-headed arches on slightly chamfered stone piers beside the central door and at the inner returns of the wings. In the south range, the dovecot has external stone steps leading to a central boarded door on the first floor, with a similar door on the ground floor to the right. The outer elevation of the dovecot features hit-and-miss windows on two floors and a roundel with glazing bars on the third floor, topped with a weathervane finial on its pyramidal roof. The low ranges flanking the dovecot have timber lintels above three boarded doors facing the field. Inside, the farm buildings display scissor-trussed roofs.

Historically, Kelly's directory for 1858 describes these buildings as part of a model farm, noted for being the most complete and extensive in Northumberland.

Local climate

Farm Buildings to West of Horton Grange Farmhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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