Portico House and Terrace Walling is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Portico House and Terrace Walling

WRENN ID
ragged-joist-reed
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 October 1969
Type
Cottage
Address
Portico House and Terrace Walling, Wallington Demesne, NE61 4AR
OS grid reference
NZ 032 844
Coordinates
55.15465, -1.95016
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Portico House is a cottage with a summerhouse and flanking walls, located in Wallington Demesne. The walls date from the 17th century and have been much repaired, while the cottage itself was built around 1750, likely by Daniel Garrett. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a slate roof and features brick walls in English garden wall bond on a stone plinth. The building is two storeys high with one wide bay.

The ground floor is recessed behind a Roman Doric screen, which is distyle in antis. There is a central six-panel door with a tall overlight and a modillion cornice above it. Four pilasters rise from the screen cornice to a first-floor sill band, where a central four-pane sash window is flanked by blind panels with sills that step down. The building has a moulded eaves cornice and a pediment. Stepped and corniced brick chimneys project towards the rear of each return.

The tall walls, topped with flat stone coping, have buttresses flanking the cottage. On either side, there are late 19th-century sash windows set under flat gauged brick arches. Stout buttresses are present at the ends and to the rear of the building.

Local climate

Portico House and Terrace Walling receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% 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 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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