Council Office Former Workhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1977. Office, former workhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Council Office Former Workhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-screen-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1977
- Type
- Office, former workhouse
- Address
- Council Office Former Workhouse, Wagonway Road, Alnwick
- OS grid reference
- NU 190 128
- Coordinates
- 55.40944, -1.7008
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a former workhouse, dating from 1841 and later used as council offices. It is constructed of ashlar stone, arranged over two storeys with a three-window front on each side of a side-lit canted bay. This bay connects via a single-storey, one-window annexe to a taller, single-storey central wing built of rubble stone and featuring three windows. The roof is slate-covered with verges and a hipped section over the bay. The windows are glazing bar sashes, spaced in a pattern of 1-2-bay-2-1.
Local climate
Council Office Former Workhouse receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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 — 9 transactions since 2016
- 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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