Greenhead Cottages and Attached Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. Cottage.

Greenhead Cottages and Attached Walls

WRENN ID
vast-bastion-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1986
Type
Cottage
Address
Greenhead Cottages and Attached Walls, Shotley Low Quarter
OS grid reference
NZ 050 517
Coordinates
54.86056, -1.92232
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Greenhead Cottages and attached walls are a pair of cottages dating from the late 18th century. They are constructed of rubble with cut dressings and feature stone slate roofs. The buildings are two storeys high and consist of four bays. The central bays have boarded doors, while the left bay includes a 12-pane lower window and a 9-pane fixed casement. The right bay has its windows boarded over. All openings are framed in stone with a narrow chamfer. The gables are coped and have moulded kneelers, with end stacks on the right that have been rebuilt. To the left, there is a flat-coped wall ending in a pyramid finial, and to the right, a flat-coped wall features a boarded window topped by a life-size statue of a soldier dressed in 18th-century attire.

Local climate

Greenhead Cottages and Attached Walls receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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