Greenhouse 120 Metres East of Felton Park with Potting Shed at Rear is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1969. A Victorian Greenhouse.
Greenhouse 120 Metres East of Felton Park with Potting Shed at Rear
- WRENN ID
- noble-niche-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1969
- Type
- Greenhouse
- Period
- Victorian
- OS grid reference
- NU 180 001
- Coordinates
- 55.29528, -1.71734
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a greenhouse built around 1830, located 120 metres east of Felton Park, which includes a potting shed at the rear. The greenhouse incorporates an 18th-century garden wall made of brick with stone dressings. The structure features a cast-iron and glass design on an ashlar base, with a brick plinth on the eastern part.
The front wall of the greenhouse is low and has 30 bays with a boldly convex pent roof. The glazing consists of vertical panels, including fishscale pieces of opaque glass, and there is a permanent iron ladder in the center. The upper wall has two rows of nine grilled vents. The left side has vertical strips of small square panes and a half-glazed iron door with fishscale glazing, while the right side has an inserted boarded double door.
At the rear, the potting shed has a pent roof and features five 12-pane Yorkshire sash windows, along with a boarded door on each side.
Inside, the greenhouse has a central division wall with a door similar to the one on the left side. Each section contains a four-bay axial arcade supported by slender iron columns. The plastered rear wall has vents at the roof level, which are closed by pivoting iron shutters that use a counterweight mechanism.
The brick plinth indicates that the eastern half of the greenhouse may be slightly older, although both sections are otherwise identical. This greenhouse is similar in form to the conservatory built in 1825 at Beetham, designed by Webster of Kendal, and is noted as an unusually early and well-preserved example.
Local climate
Greenhouse 120 Metres East of Felton Park with Potting Shed at Rear receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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