High House Methodist Chapel and Area Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Chapel.

High House Methodist Chapel and Area Railings

WRENN ID
turning-granite-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1985
Type
Chapel
Address
High House Methodist Chapel and Area Railings, West Allen
OS grid reference
NY 790 544
Coordinates
54.88442, -2.32853
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High House Methodist Chapel, built in 1859, is a Methodist chapel constructed of rubble with toothed and margined dressings and a slate roof. The building has one tall storey and three bays, with a basement on the right return and rear. It features an off-centre porch with a boarded door, which is topped by a coped gable with moulded kneelers. To the right, there are nine-pane sash windows with arched heads on the upper panes. The right return includes a boarded door with alternating jambs and a 16-pane sash window, with a round-headed window above that has radial glazing and 19th-century coloured glass. The left return has two round-headed 15-pane sash windows, also with 19th-century coloured glass in the heads. Above and between these windows is a semicircular stone panel inscribed 'WESLEYAN CHAPEL' along with the date. The area railings, which have been enlarged, feature lotus finials and are set on a low rubble wall with flat coping, extending from a plain pier on the left to a taller wall on the right, which connects back to the right end of the return. The interior is currently being remodelled.

Local climate

High House Methodist Chapel and Area Railings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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