Old Town Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House.
Old Town Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- vacant-wattle-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Town Farmhouse, Plenmeller with Whitfield
- OS grid reference
- NY 788 587
- Coordinates
- 54.92265, -2.33221
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Town Farmhouse is a house built around 1790. It is constructed from squared stone with tooled and margined dressings and features a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three symmetrical bays. The front entrance consists of a four-panel door beneath a three-pane overlight, and there are twelve-pane sash windows, with all openings having alternating jambs. The right end has a stepped stone stack, while the left end stack has been rebuilt in yellow brick. The rear of the house has similar fenestration, along with a later single-storey rear wing. Inside, there are four-panel doors, panelled shutters, and a heavy bar behind the front door.
Local climate
Old Town Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 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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