High Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.
High Town House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-entrance-thunder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Town House, A 69 (T), Melkridge, NE49 0LP
- OS grid reference
- NY 736 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97059, -2.41241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Town House is a house dated 1741, as indicated by the re-cut doorway keystone. It is constructed of coursed rubble with stone and brick dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and features stone and brick chimneys. The house is built on a sloping site and consists of two sections: a two-storey, three-bay left section and a three-storey, two-window section on the right. The left section features a rusticated round-arched door surround with the keystone inscribed "TIB 1741," flanked by replaced French windows, with sash windows above in raised surrounds. The right section has a varied arrangement of windows in raised surrounds. The continuous roof has end stacks and a ridge stack at the junction, with the right end stack having a rebuilt brick top. There are 19th-century additions at the rear and a 20th-century addition on the left return, which is not of special interest.
Local climate
High Town House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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