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

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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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