Old Cottage and Adjacent Ruin is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. Cottage.
Old Cottage and Adjacent Ruin
- WRENN ID
- winding-joist-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 October 1969
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Cottage and Adjacent Ruin, Meldon
- OS grid reference
- NZ 149 861
- Coordinates
- 55.16932, -1.76652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Cottage and the adjacent ruin, previously listed as Newton Underwood Tower, consists of ruins that are probably medieval and a cottage from the 18th century. The cottage is built of squared stone and has a pantile roof. It features two low storeys and three bays, with an irregular layout. The right-of-centre vertical-panelled door is flanked by Yorkshire sash windows, although the one on the left has lost its carpentry, as have three small windows located directly beneath the eaves. There are brick end stacks. To the left, there is an outbuilding with a cart entrance and a door that has timber lintels. To the right, slightly set forward, is a ruined wall that is 2 meters thick, featuring a large semicircular arch made of roughly-shaped voussoirs. The left and right returns of the cottage and outbuilding display reverse-stepped gables. The rear elevation includes an outshut to the cottage, and to the left, there is a ruined wall made of large rectangular blocks.
The ruined structure, formerly known as the 'Old Walls', does not appear to have been a conventional tower house. Hodgson noted around 1800 that there were two similar arches adjoining on the east.
Local climate
Old Cottage and Adjacent Ruin receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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