Ford Castle North Forecourt Wall and Gateway with Laundry and Service Wing Attached to Rear is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Gateway, forecourt wall, service wing. 1 related planning application.
Ford Castle North Forecourt Wall and Gateway with Laundry and Service Wing Attached to Rear
- WRENN ID
- noble-garret-hawthorn
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Gateway, forecourt wall, service wing
- Address
- Ford Castle North Forecourt Wall and Gateway with Laundry and Service Wing Attached to Rear, TD15 2PX
- OS grid reference
- NT 944 375
- Coordinates
- 55.6314, -2.08975
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The North Forecourt Wall and Gateway of Ford Castle, along with the attached laundry and service wing at the rear, were built in 1791 by J. Nisbet for Sir John Hussey Deleval. The laundry and service wing were added in the mid to late 19th century for the Marchioness of Waterford. The structure is made of ashlar and features a Gothick style. The central high pedestrian gateway has a pointed arch with an imitation portcullis, set within a blank trefoiled arch. It includes a modillion cornice and three pierced quartrefoils in the parapet, with castellated walls on both sides.
The laundry, attached to the east end of the rear, is a single-storey building with seven bays. It has a central boarded door with a three-pane overlight and 12-pane sash windows in stop-chamfered surrounds, topped with a gabled roof covered in Lakeland slates. The interior retains laundry equipment from the period.
The service wing is attached to the west end of the rear and is designed in a similar style. It has an irregular plan, featuring boarded doors, 12-pane sash windows, and a roof also covered in Lakeland slates.
Local climate
Ford Castle North Forecourt Wall and Gateway with Laundry and Service Wing Attached to Rear receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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