Front Wall and Gateway to Armstrong Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Wall, gateway.
Front Wall and Gateway to Armstrong Cottages
- WRENN ID
- dusted-gargoyle-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1987
- Type
- Wall, gateway
- Address
- Front Wall and Gateway to Armstrong Cottages, Town Foot, Rothbury
- OS grid reference
- NU 060 017
- Coordinates
- 55.3102, -1.90648
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The front wall and gateway to Armstrong Cottages, likely built in 1896, is constructed from roughly-squared stone with cut dressings. It features cast-iron piers and a wrought-iron overthrow. The low wall has chamfered coping and was formerly fitted with rails. It includes end piers topped with pyramidal caps and a central entrance flanked by small panelled piers with moulded flat tops. The adjacent gateway has circular piers that support a scrolled round-arched overthrow with a finial.
Local climate
Front Wall and Gateway to Armstrong Cottages receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% 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 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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