The Nest is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
The Nest
- WRENN ID
- north-merlon-nightshade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Nest, Ellingham, NE67 5LL
- OS grid reference
- NU 165 264
- Coordinates
- 55.53165, -1.73957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nest is a cottage with an attached forge, dating from the 18th century and altered in the early 19th century. It is built of ashlar stone and has a pantiled roof. The building features a through-passage plan and includes a slightly later continuous outshut at the rear. It is a single-storey structure that was formerly equipped with a partial sleeping loft and has four irregular bays.
There is a lean-to porch with a panelled door located in the second bay. To the left of the porch, there is a 12-pane sash window, a 6-pane sash window to the right, and a 4-pane sash window at the extreme right. On the first floor, to the right of the door, there are two very small Yorkshire sash windows situated below the eaves, along with two blocked earlier windows.
The roof is steeply pitched and gabled, featuring raised coping, with a stack at the left end and a ridge stack to the right of the door. The lower two-bay forge to the right has a sliding door in the left bay and a blacksmith-type window to the right, also topped with a steeply pitched gabled roof and a brick end stack.
Local climate
The Nest receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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