Garden Walls to Longhirst Farmhouse and Longhirst Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1985. Garden wall.
Garden Walls to Longhirst Farmhouse and Longhirst Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- kindled-quartz-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1985
- Type
- Garden wall
- Address
- Garden Walls to Longhirst Farmhouse and Longhirst Farm Cottage, Longhirst Village
- OS grid reference
- NZ 225 891
- Coordinates
- 55.19635, -1.64807
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden walls at Longhirst Farmhouse and Longhirst Farm Cottage date from the 19th century and are constructed of squared stone. The roadside wall features gabled coping and curves at the northern end. There are gabled monolithic gate piers leading to the cottage. A similar wall and gateway can be found to the north, while a taller flat-coped wall connects to the north-west corner of the farmhouse and extends to the south of the cottage, which includes a gateway with matching piers. The taller eastern section of the wall is not considered to be of special interest.
Local climate
Garden Walls to Longhirst Farmhouse and Longhirst Farm Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2000
- No related consent applications matched
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