Birtley Castle, in Garden of Birtley Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1951. Ruined castle.
Birtley Castle, in Garden of Birtley Hall
- WRENN ID
- quiet-joist-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1951
- Type
- Ruined castle
- OS grid reference
- NY 877 778
- Coordinates
- 55.09506, -2.1937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Birtley Castle is a ruined castle located in the garden of Birtley Hall in Northumberland. It was granted a licence to crenellate in 1307 and is believed to have been dated 1611 above the door. The structure is made of roughly dressed stone and features fragmentary remains, with parts of two walls standing approximately 7 feet tall. There is one slit window with a dressed-stone surround, which is widely splayed on the inside and has an old wooden lintel. The south-west corner of the castle is rounded.
Local climate
Birtley Castle, in Garden of Birtley Hall receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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