Farmbuildings Incorporating Barn, Byre and Smithy, East of Fairshaw Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Farmbuilding.
Farmbuildings Incorporating Barn, Byre and Smithy, East of Fairshaw Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- ancient-spire-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Farmbuilding
- Address
- Farmbuildings Incorporating Barn, Byre and Smithy, East of Fairshaw Farmhouse, B 6320, Simonburn
- OS grid reference
- NY 885 731
- Coordinates
- 55.05283, -2.18039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a range of farm buildings that includes a barn, byre, and smithy, located east of Fairshaw Farmhouse. They were built in the late 18th to early 19th century and consist of several constructions. The buildings are made of coursed rubble with stone dressings, topped with a purple slate roof and featuring a dressed stone chimney.
The structure is a single-storey linear range, with the barn on the left and the combined byre and smithy on the right. The taller barn has breathers and three chamfered doorways with alternating jambs and boarded doors, and its roof has coped gables. The byre features two boarded doors in similar surrounds, while the smithy on the right has tooled quoins and two segmental archways, one of which is partly blocked with an inserted casement. The smithy’s roof has lower eaves, coped gables, and a stack at the right end.
There is a 20th-century barn at the rear of the byre and smithy, but it is not of special interest. This range of buildings is included for its group value.
Local climate
Farmbuildings Incorporating Barn, Byre and Smithy, East of Fairshaw Farmhouse 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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