Linden Hall Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1986. Country house. 3 related planning applications.
Linden Hall Hotel
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1986
- Type
- Country house
- Address
- Linden Hall Hotel, Longhorsley, NE65 8XF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 153 965
- Coordinates
- 55.26331, -1.75989
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Linden Hall Hotel is a country house built in 1812 by John Dobson for Charles William Bigge, and it is now a hotel. The building features ashlar, squared and tooled stone on the North Range, with a Welsh slate roof, except for green slate on the North Range. It has a square plan with a lower wing to the north and is designed in a severe Grecian style.
The entrance front, facing west, is two storeys high and consists of five symmetrical bays. The broad central bay slightly projects and features a tetrastyle Doric porch with unfluted columns, accessed by three steps. The porch has renewed double doors with an 8-pane overlight, flanked by narrow 4-pane sash windows. Above the porch is a 9-pane short window flanked by 6-pane short sashes. The flanking bays have ground floor 12-pane sashes and 9-pane short sashes above. The roof is hipped with slate, and there are three rendered stacks on the inner roof slopes.
The garden front, facing south, has seven bays. The broad central bay slightly projects and includes a tripartite French window with plain pilasters and a shallow cornice, now leading into a conservatory added in 1895, which features a rock-faced plinth, altered glazing, and an elaborate wrought-iron finial. The fenestration is similar to that of the entrance front. The east garden front has six bays with similar windows. There are set-back domestic ranges to the north.
Inside, the central full-height stair hall is illuminated by an oval lantern in the central well of the roof. The stair features a moulded and wreathed handrail that sweeps around the east and north walls, rising to a landing on the west. The rear face of the lowest step is inscribed with "C W B 1813."
Local climate
Linden Hall Hotel 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 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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