Farmbuildings and Cottage at South Fens is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. A C18 Cottage, farmbuilding. 2 related planning applications.
Farmbuildings and Cottage at South Fens
- WRENN ID
- low-cobalt-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Cottage, farmbuilding
- Address
- Farmbuildings and Cottage at South Fens, Matfen, NE18 0LN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 056 745
- Coordinates
- 55.06533, -1.9128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
An 18th-century cottage with an L-shaped range of farm buildings. The buildings are constructed of random rubble with Welsh slate and stone slate roofs.
The cottage is two storeys high, with two windows. It has a boarded entrance door and a 16-pane Yorkshire sash window on the ground floor. Above are a 12-pane and an 8-pane Yorkshire sash windows. The steeply-pitched gabled roof has old brick end stacks.
To the left of the cottage is a single-storey, three-bay byre with two boarded doors and one casement window, topped by a steeply-pitched roof with reverse-stepped gables.
A long range projecting from the left incorporates a byre, barn, and stable. To the left is a lower two-bay byre, now used as a garage. In the centre is a taller barn with a boarded door. Both have steeply-pitched roofs with reverse-stepped gables. A short linking section on the right, covered with an asbestos roof, is included for group value.
Local climate
Farmbuildings and Cottage at South Fens receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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 — 2 transactions since 2017
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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