High Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Pair of cottages.
High Houses
- WRENN ID
- gentle-turret-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Pair of cottages
- Address
- High Houses, 1 and 2, Callaly, NE66 4TE
- OS grid reference
- NU 036 097
- Coordinates
- 55.38128, -1.94318
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Houses is a pair of cottages built around 1880, constructed from snecked stone and topped with a Welsh slate roof in a Tudor style. The design features a central section that is one and a half stories tall, flanked by single-storey, L-shaped wings.
Each cottage has a ground-floor entrance with a boarded and battened door that includes a later addition of a glazed panel. There are two three-light mullioned windows on the ground floor, each with eight-pane sash windows in each light. Above the doors, there are similar windows in gabled half-dormers. All openings are framed with stepped and hollow-chamfered surrounds, and there is a string course above the ground floor.
The roof is gabled, featuring kneelers, flat coping, and corniced end stacks on the central section. These cottages were built as part of the Callaly estate.
Local climate
High Houses receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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