Western Farmhouse at Shankfoot is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House.
Western Farmhouse at Shankfoot
- WRENN ID
- heavy-pinnacle-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Western Farmhouse at Shankfoot, Plenmeller with Whitfield
- OS grid reference
- NY 746 632
- Coordinates
- 54.96298, -2.39702
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Western Farmhouse at Shankfoot is a house that dates from the late 17th century and was remodeled in the early 19th century. It is constructed of rubble with large, roughly-shaped quoins and cut dressings, topped with a slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays, which are slightly irregular in arrangement.
The central entrance features a boarded door set within an opening that has a flat-pointed head and a moulded surround with heavy bar stops, which may have been re-set. The house has 16-pane sash windows with alternating jambs and slightly projecting sills. There are ashlar stepped stacks with conjoined shafts and moulded caps.
To the right, there is a rear wall of a demolished adjacent building, behind which the house's outshut extends. Inside, the farmhouse includes four-panel doors, old ceiling beams, and two late 17th-century fireplaces with moulded flat-pointed arches supported by corbels.
Local climate
Western Farmhouse at Shankfoot 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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