Watchlaw Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse.
Watchlaw Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-jade-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Watchlaw Farmhouse, Ford
- OS grid reference
- NT 962 395
- Coordinates
- 55.64978, -2.06091
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watchlaw Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse constructed of ashlar stone with a tiled roof and later brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and features three bays. A central gabled porch with a boarded door is present, along with 12-pane sash windows set in raised surrounds. The roof is steeply pitched with gabled ends and splayed coping, while the rear has a catslide roof. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Watchlaw Farmhouse 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 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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