Shoreston Cottage and Midcote with Linking Walls and Outhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 August 1987. Cottages. 5 related planning applications.
Shoreston Cottage and Midcote with Linking Walls and Outhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-chalk-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 August 1987
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Shoreston Cottage and Midcote with Linking Walls and Outhouse, North Sunderland, NE68 7SX
- OS grid reference
- NU 203 325
- Coordinates
- 55.58651, -1.67847
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shoreston Cottage and Midcote are two cottages linked by walls and an outbuilding, built in 1913 by Robert Mauchlen for Sir Stephen Runciman. The cottages are constructed of random rubble, with a finely dressed front face, and have pantiled roofs. They are designed in the Arts and Crafts style.
Shoreston Cottage, to the left, has four bays. It has a boarded and battened door in the third bay, sheltered by a stone hood and brackets. The left three bays are single-storey and have a catslide roof. The right bay is two-storey. The windows are 16- and 24-pane casements. The roof on the left is hipped and features one hipped dormer on the front and one on the hip to the left. There are two corniced ridge stacks.
Midcote is to the right and has three bays with a similar door and windows. It is topped with a gabled roof and a central corniced ridge stack, with windows on the gable ends.
Between the cottages is an outbuilding that originally housed toilets and coal storage. It is partially screened by a linking wall, which is pierced by two round-headed arches with imposts and keystones. A small four-pane window in the outbuilding’s gable is set within a round-headed recess with a keystone.
The cottages and linking walls form a picturesque group with neighboring houses.
Local climate
Shoreston Cottage and Midcote with Linking Walls and Outhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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 — 3 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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