Boys Brigade Headquarters is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
Boys Brigade Headquarters
- WRENN ID
- hollow-threshold-hyssop
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Boys Brigade Headquarters, Manchester Street, Morpeth, NE61 1BH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 197 861
- Coordinates
- 55.16962, -1.69102
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Boys' Brigade Headquarters, originally a Wesleyan Chapel, was built in 1884. It features an ashlar facade with a brick rear and a Welsh slate roof, designed in the Perpendicular style. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The central bay is flanked by buttresses and includes two Tudor-arched doors with multi-moulded surrounds and ogee hoodmoulds. Above these doors is a large five-light arched window with two transoms. The flanking bays each have two tiers of three-light windows, which are adorned with cusped ogee heads.
Local climate
Boys Brigade Headquarters receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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