Watson House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Watson House
- WRENN ID
- muted-eave-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Watson House, 23, Oldgate, Morpeth, NE61 1QF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 196 859
- Coordinates
- 55.16748, -1.69253
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Watson House is a mid-18th century brick house built in irregular English Garden Wall Bond, located on the south side of Oldgate in Morpeth. It features a tiled roof and stands three storeys tall with two broad bays. The central entrance has a six-panel door with an overlight set within a Tuscan surround. There are broad painted bands on each floor, originally intended as sill bands; however, the windows were lengthened in the 19th century, resulting in the sills now being positioned just below these bands. The windows are two-pane sashes with flat arches, and the right window on the first floor is an early 19th-century canted oriel, which includes 12- and 8-pane sashes. The roof is steeply pitched and has tumbled-in brickwork in the gables.
Local climate
Watson House 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 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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 — 4 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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