Carrshield House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House.
Carrshield House
- WRENN ID
- ghost-keystone-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carrshield House, West Allen
- OS grid reference
- NY 802 477
- Coordinates
- 54.82401, -2.30864
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carrshield House is a house from the early 19th century, with later extensions added in the 19th century. It is built of rubble with tooled and margined dressings and has a slate roof. The house is two storeys high and features three symmetrical bays. The central door has been renewed and is set beneath an oblong overlight, with alternating jambs. The windows are twelve-pane sash types, except for the margined sash located above the door, all featuring tooled lintels and slightly projecting sills. The end stacks are stepped and corniced ashlar with conjoined shafts. At the rear, there is a wing that has renewed sashes, also with tooled and margined lintels and slightly projecting sills. The back gable is coped with kneelers and carries a stepped and corniced stack.
Local climate
Carrshield House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 76 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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