Allenheads Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Country house. 2 related planning applications.

Allenheads Hall

WRENN ID
forbidden-facade-bittern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1985
Type
Country house
Address
Allenheads Hall, Allendale, NE47 9HW
OS grid reference
NY 860 451
Coordinates
54.80066, -2.21812
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Allenheads Hall is a country house built in 1854 as a residence for Thomas Sopwith, who was a mine agent and engineer, and may have also been the architect. The building is constructed of squared stone with tooled and margined quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs. It has an irregular L-plan and features an eclectic style with Gothic details.

The entrance front is two storeys high and consists of six bays, with the three bays on the left facing the stable yard. In the fifth bay, there is a slightly projecting porch adorned with a heavy cornice. The windows are 12-pane sash windows with shouldered lintels. A corbel table runs along the eaves, and the hipped roofs have corniced ridge stacks. The west front has four irregular bays, including a canted bay. The interior has not been seen.

Local climate

Allenheads Hall 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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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