Garden House and Garden House Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1988. House and cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Garden House and Garden House Cottage
- WRENN ID
- still-spire-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1988
- Type
- House and cottage
- Address
- Garden House and Garden House Cottage, Acomb
- OS grid reference
- NY 929 660
- Coordinates
- 54.98871, -2.111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises an 18th-century house extended and remodelled in the early 19th century, alongside a cottage formed from an 18th-century stable, remodelled in the early 20th century. The house is constructed of coursed rubble, with the first floor of the cottage built of snecked rubble. Cut quoins and dressings, largely tooled and margined, are also present. The house has a stone slate roof, while the cottage has a blue slate roof.
The south elevation, of two storeys, is divided into two sections. The house section has three bays. A renewed rustic wood porch provides access between the first and second bays, concealing the entrance door. The windows are mostly 16-pane sashes, with the centre first-floor window being a replacement. The ground floor features 12-pane sashes in the third bay and between the second and third bays. The cottage, to the right, has one bay, with a 20th-century porch flanked by renewed 12-pane sash windows in original openings. A further pair of similar windows are in later walling above. The building features stepped-and-corniced end stacks and one ridge stack.
Local climate
Garden House and Garden House Cottage receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1995
- 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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