Shieldcroft is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 1976. House.
Shieldcroft
- WRENN ID
- eternal-tower-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- Shieldcroft, Fellside, Hexham
- OS grid reference
- NY 944 634
- Coordinates
- 54.96522, -2.08855
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shieldcroft is an 18th-century building that stands two storeys high and features one window on the left side and three windows on the right side. The front is finished in pebble-dash, and it has high verges on a slate roof with brick chimneys. There is an annex with one window. The windows are casement style, consisting of one, two, and three lights, and they include glazing bars and plain dripmoulds. The building has a central closed porch that is gabled and has a roof made of Westmoreland slate.
Local climate
Shieldcroft receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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