Path House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. House.

Path House

WRENN ID
lesser-timber-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1969
Type
House
Address
Path House, the Peth, Allendale, NE47 9BJ
OS grid reference
NY 836 558
Coordinates
54.89699, -2.25644
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Path House is a house built in 1813, located in Allendale Town. The front elevation is made of tooled ashlar, while the returns and rear are constructed of rubble. It features a hipped slate roof and stepped stone end stacks. The lower section on the right is set back and also made of rubble with a slate roof and a stone gable stack. The house has three storeys and is symmetrical with three bays plus one. It has a plinth and sill bands.

There are three curved steps leading up to a central flush-panelled door that has a traceried fanlight above it, all under a keyed archivolt. The windows are 16-pane sash windows. The right extension includes a boarded door with a 12-pane sash window to the left, and similar windows are found above. To the far right, there is a later lean-to with an external stone stair leading to a first-floor door. A flight of stone steps runs alongside the left return. The rear elevation features a tall round-headed stair window with patterned glazing bars. The interior has not been seen. It is reputed that Dorothy Forster was born here.

Local climate

Path House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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