Mrs Williams' Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. Cottage.
Mrs Williams' Cottage
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-pier-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Mrs Williams' Cottage, Church Lane, Broomhaugh and Riding
- OS grid reference
- NZ 018 613
- Coordinates
- 54.94663, -1.97236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mrs Williams' Cottage is a building that originally served as a schoolroom and schoolmaster's house, now functioning as a single residence. It was constructed in 1828, with the schoolroom being remodeled in 1855 and the first floor of the house added later in the 19th century. The structure is made of rubble with cut quoins and dressings, featuring slate roofs.
The east elevation is divided into two parts. The schoolroom on the left is a single storey with two bays. It has blocked doorways on either side of a pair of 12-pane sash windows, which are set in stone surrounds. The original arched heads have been replaced with 19th-century lintels. The left gable is coped and has a stone stack.
To the right is the schoolmaster's house, which is two storeys tall with two wide bays. There is a renewed door located right of centre, framed by an alternating-block surround. The house features 12-pane sash windows with tooled-and-margined lintels and slightly projecting sills. The right gable is also coped, with stone end stacks.
At the rear of the schoolroom, there is a boarded door with a tall 6-pane overlight to the left, and a 12-pane sash window, both of which have radial glazing under round-arched heads in stone surrounds.
Local climate
Mrs Williams' Cottage receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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