Threshing Barn and Additions North of High Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Farm buildings.
Threshing Barn and Additions North of High Town House
- WRENN ID
- errant-doorway-foxglove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Farm buildings
- Address
- Threshing Barn and Additions North of High Town House, A 69 (T), Melkridge
- OS grid reference
- NY 736 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97075, -2.41293
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a threshing barn and its additions located north of High Town House, dating from the early 19th century with later 19th-century modifications. The barn is constructed from dressed stone and has a corrugated-asbestos roof, while the additions are made of coursed rubble with slate roofs. The building has a linked T-plan, featuring the threshing barn with an extension on the right side, and a byre at right angles to the barn, which has a lean-to barn attached at the rear.
The threshing barn is two stories high and has five bays, with central opposed elliptical archways that feature paired boarded doors. There are two rows of breathers and a blind pointed archway on the left return. The two-story, two-bay extension on the right return includes 20th-century garage openings and a small boarded window above, with a hipped roof on the right side. The two-story, three-bay byre, located to the right of the barn's archway, has a central Dutch door with a boarded loft opening above, set in surrounds with alternating jambs. At the rear of the byre is a lower two-story lean-to barn. A single-storey garage on the gable end of the byre is not considered of special interest. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Threshing Barn and Additions North of High Town House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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