Whitchester Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage.
Whitchester Cottages
- WRENN ID
- scattered-bastion-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Whitchester Cottages, 1 and 2, Heddon-On-The-Wall
- OS grid reference
- NZ 098 683
- Coordinates
- 55.00961, -1.847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitchester Cottages, located in Heddon-on-the-Wall, are former cottages that have been converted into farm storage. They date back to the 18th century and are constructed from coursed stone with a boulder plinth. The roof is covered with pantiles.
The buildings are two low storeys high. Each cottage features a boarded door and casement windows that have old wood lintels. On the first floor, there are two small windows, one of which is a Yorkshire sash. The cottages have a steeply-pitched gabled roof with reverse-stepped coping.
Local climate
Whitchester Cottages 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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