Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- WRENN ID
- still-cornice-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings, B6342, Kirkwhelpington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 000 811
- Coordinates
- 55.12511, -2.00083
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Merry Shiels Farmhouse and attached farm buildings is a planned farmstead from the early 19th century, constructed from dressed stone and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The layout consists of three symmetrical ranges surrounding a courtyard.
The north range features a two-storey, three-bay farmhouse with attached single-storey, one-bay byres. The house has a 20th-century door with an overlight and four-pane sash windows with moulded reveals. It has a gabled roof with overlapping coping and two end stacks. The byre on the right has a plank door, while the byre on the left has been converted into a garage. Short walls with plank doors connect the north range to the projecting single-storey ranges.
The east range includes six elliptical arches that once sheltered sheds, three of which are now blocked. To the right of these arches is a former two-bay cottage, now used for storage, featuring a door and window in an alternating-block surround. This cottage has a hipped roof with a square corniced ridge stack.
The west range serves as a byre and stable, containing three plank doors and two half-slatted windows. There is a blocked elliptical arch that used to be a cart shed on the left, and this range also has a hipped roof.
Local climate
Merry Shiels Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings receives an average of 870 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 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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