Ayle Well and Adjacent Farmbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House, farm building.
Ayle Well and Adjacent Farmbuilding
- WRENN ID
- sharp-vestry-merlin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- House, farm building
- Address
- Ayle Well and Adjacent Farmbuilding, Knaresdale with Kirkhaugh
- OS grid reference
- NY 715 494
- Coordinates
- 54.83888, -2.44384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ayle Well and the adjacent farm building is a house with a cottage on the left, now functioning as a single dwelling, along with a farm building next to the cottage. The main structure dates from around 1730 but includes masonry from around 1600 and the late 17th century, with restoration work carried out around 1980. The building is constructed of rubble with stone dressings, featuring stone slate roofs on the house and cottage, while the farm building has a 20th-century metal roof.
The house is two storeys high with two wide bays. It has a central boarded door flanked by former two-light mullioned windows, with the left window having been restored. The first floor has similar windows flanking a central narrow window set in a chamfered surround. The cottage to the left is three storeys tall with two bays. It features an external stone stair over the ground-floor door, which has a small loop to the left, leading to a central first-floor door flanked by former two-light windows. There are smaller windows in chamfered surrounds on the second floor. The rear elevation shows a boarded door leading to the byre.
The farm building to the left of the cottage incorporates earlier fabric, likely from a bastle house, and is included for its group value. There is a single-storey extension to the right of the house that is not of interest.
Local climate
Ayle Well and Adjacent Farmbuilding sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% 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 75 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 53 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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