Horse Close and Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. House, barn.
Horse Close and Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- inner-obsidian-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- House, barn
- Address
- Horse Close and Attached Barn, Maidenway, Featherstone
- OS grid reference
- NY 669 612
- Coordinates
- 54.94484, -2.5182
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Horse Close and the attached barn are a house and barn dating from the mid-18th century, with the house possibly incorporating older materials on the ground floor of the right return. The structure is built of coursed rubble, featuring an imitation-stone tiled roof and rebuilt stone chimneys for the house, while the barn has a stone-flagged roof.
The house is two storeys high with two windows. It has large alternating quoins on the ground floor to the right. There is an off-centre boarded door surrounded by alternating, tooled-and-margined jambs. The windows are three-light with narrow, flat-faced stone mullions and replaced casements. The roof has end stacks with top ledges, and there is a similar two-light window on the rear of the right return.
The lower two-storey, two-bay barn is located on the left return of the house and features squared quoins. It has central opposed doorways with alternating jambs, although the rear doorway is blocked. There are two rows of breathers flanking the doorways, and a boulder plinth with breathers on the left return.
There is an altered single-storey wing at the rear of the house, which is not of special interest.
Local climate
Horse Close and Attached Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 65 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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