Kennels Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Kennels Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-lime-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Kennels Cottage, Matfen
- OS grid reference
- NZ 037 703
- Coordinates
- 55.02795, -1.94298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kennels Cottage, formerly listed as Kennel Cottage, is an early 19th-century cottage constructed of ashlar with a graduated Welsh slate roof. It is a single-storey building featuring three bays. The entrance consists of a boarded door with a four-pane overlight above it. The cottage has 16-pane sash windows and a hipped roof that includes a banded central stack. This building is included in the listing for its group value.
Local climate
Kennels Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% 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 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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