Bog Head Cottage and Adjacent Farmbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House, byre, hayloft. 4 related planning applications.

Bog Head Cottage and Adjacent Farmbuildings

WRENN ID
brooding-soffit-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1985
Type
House, byre, hayloft
Address
Bog Head Cottage and Adjacent Farmbuildings, West Allen, NE47 8DD
OS grid reference
NY 788 526
Coordinates
54.86814, -2.33052
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Bog Head Cottage and adjacent farm buildings date from the early 19th century. They are constructed of squared rubble with a stone slate roof and stand two storeys high with three bays. The front features an off-centre boarded door, a 16-pane sash window to the left, and a similar window above it. To the right, there is a boarded door leading to the byre and a half-slatted window above. There are small lean-to additions on both the left and right sides. The left return displays a small blocked attic window and boarded doors in the lean-to and in the left end wall of the contemporary house outshut. The rear elevation includes a hayloft door on the left flanked by slit vents, and a pitching door in the right lean-to. This building is a good example of a house used by a smallholder-cum-miner, a type that was once common in the area.

Local climate

Bog Head Cottage and Adjacent Farmbuildings 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2008
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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