Alexandra House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. A Mid C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Alexandra House
- WRENN ID
- errant-thatch-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Alexandra House, High Street, Rothbury, NE65 7TE
- OS grid reference
- NU 056 017
- Coordinates
- 55.3098, -1.91257
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Alexandra House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with a shop front and half dormers added in the later 19th century. The ground floor is made of squared stone, while the upper parts are rendered and colour-washed. The roof is slate, previously thatch, and covered with a waterproof coating. The left chimney stack was heightened in the 20th century with brick.
The building has two storeys plus attics and features three irregular bays. There is a left-of-centre six-panel door set in a chamfered surround. To the left of the door is a sash window in a stone surround, and to the right is a shop front that includes a central half-glazed door, wooden pilasters, and a cornice. The first floor has sash windows in stone surrounds, with lintels that have keystones flanked by sunk panels. In the gabled half dormers, there are four-pane attic casements. The right gable is coped on moulded kneelers, and there are end stacks, with the right stack being stepped and corniced.
There is a contemporary wing at the rear right of the house.
Local climate
Alexandra House receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2005
- 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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