Pair of Stone Lions and Plinths by Front Door to Cheswick House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 February 1988. Memorial.
Pair of Stone Lions and Plinths by Front Door to Cheswick House
- WRENN ID
- distant-cobalt-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 February 1988
- Type
- Memorial
- Address
- Pair of Stone Lions and Plinths by Front Door to Cheswick House, Ancroft
- OS grid reference
- NU 028 463
- Coordinates
- 55.71078, -1.9564
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This listing describes a pair of stone lions and their plinths located by the front door of Cheswick House. These Chinese lions date from the 19th century and are made of sandstone. They are highly detailed and sit on richly decorated plinths. The lions were brought from China in the 1870s by William Crossman, who served as a military attache there.
Local climate
Pair of Stone Lions and Plinths by Front Door to Cheswick House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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