Gardens Walls and Attached Privy to West and South of Ashington Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Garden wall, privy.

Gardens Walls and Attached Privy to West and South of Ashington Farmhouse

WRENN ID
quiet-jade-martin
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 December 1986
Type
Garden wall, privy
Address
Gardens Walls and Attached Privy to West and South of Ashington Farmhouse, Wansbeck Road
OS grid reference
NZ 263 867
Coordinates
55.17445, -1.58749
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden walls and attached privy located to the west and south of Ashington Farmhouse date from the 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. They are constructed from roughly-squared stone with tooled-and-margined dressings, and the privy features a Welsh slate roof. The east wall connects to the farmhouse and includes a gate framed by monolithic arched piers and arched coping. The south wall has similar coping that slopes up to the gatepiers, which are topped with domed caps and ball finials. The taller flat-coped walls on the west and north sides connect back to the house at the east end. There is a boarded door in the north wall, and the pent-roofed privy situated at the angle of the walls has a boarded door and a small part-slatted window. Later sheds attached to the external face of the west wall are not considered of special interest.

Local climate

Gardens Walls and Attached Privy to West and South of Ashington Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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