Cottages Nos 1 and 2 is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Cottages. 1 related planning application.
Cottages Nos 1 and 2
- WRENN ID
- outer-footing-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Cottages Nos 1 and 2, Bothal Village, Ashington, NE61 6SW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 239 866
- Coordinates
- 55.17343, -1.62572
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Cottages Nos 1 and 2 are a pair of estate cottages located in Bothal Village. They were originally built in the early 19th century and were remodeled in 1885. The cottages are constructed from squared tooled stone with ashlar dressings and feature a Welsh slate roof adorned with orange tile openwork cresting and finials. The building has an L-plan layout and the south elevation is 1½ storeys high with two bays.
The central entrance features a 4-panel door with a plain overlight, set within a timber porch that has a lattice design on a stone base. The porch is decorated with openwork bargeboards and a gable finial. The ground floor has three-light mullioned windows, while the upper half-dormers contain two-light windows. All openings have stop-chamfered surrounds. The windows are small-paned latticed casements with lozenge-shaped crossing panes and slightly projecting sills. The half-dormers are also detailed with openwork bargeboards, moulded pendants, and wrought-iron cross-fleury finials.
The roof is hipped to the right, with overhanging eaves on the gable end to the left, and features a stepped and corniced stack at the left end. The left return of the building displays a two-light window and a single-light window above, along with pierced bargeboards that have a braced pendant.
The right return mirrors the south elevation but has the doorway and porch positioned at the far right. One upper window has been renewed, and the stack is located on the ridge. The roof is half-hipped to the right, and there is a two-light window on the first floor, along with ornamental bargeboards at the rear.
Local climate
Cottages Nos 1 and 2 receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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