Allensford Mill Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. Farmhouse, outbuilding.

Allensford Mill Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings

WRENN ID
spare-basalt-quill
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 June 1986
Type
Farmhouse, outbuilding
Address
Allensford Mill Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings, A 68, Shotley Low Quarter
OS grid reference
NZ 076 503
Coordinates
54.84763, -1.88251
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Allensford Mill Farmhouse and adjacent outbuildings date from the 17th and 18th centuries. The 17th-century section is built of rubble with dressings and large quoins, while the 18th-century part features coursed rubble with dressings. Both sections have grey tile roofs. The building is two storeys high and has an irregular layout with three bays on the left and one bay on the right. The taller 17th-century right bay has two-light chamfered mullioned windows, although the lower window has been altered with 20th-century glazing. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers, and there are stepped and corniced end stacks.

The 18th-century section includes a renewed door to the right of a stone-surround window, with a similar window above that has also been renewed. The left part, which is an outbuilding, features a boarded door in an alternating-block surround and slit vents, along with two stone-surround windows that hold old six-pane casements above. The left gable is coped with moulded kneelers and has a reduced stack, as well as a stepped and corniced ridge stack. The right return shows a stepped plinth, a chamfered window, and a slit at ground level, along with a chamfered attic window.

On the rear elevation, the north bay (outbuilding) has a contemporary outshut with an external stone stair leading to an old four-panel door into a first-floor room. Inside, the 17th-century part features heavy, roughly-chamfered beams on the first floor and an 18th-century fireplace on the south side. There are corbels for an external stack at the north and exposed alongside the current stair. A blocked two-light mullioned window is visible from the 19th-century outshut, and there are transverse chamfered beams in the 18th-century section.

The earlier part of the house may have been a bastle that was remodeled in the late 17th or early 18th century. Later, it served as the Belsay Castle Inn, with a license held until 1869. The upper room in the outbuilding was used as a nonconformist chapel, likely Baptist. The outbuilding on the far left is not of interest.

Local climate

Allensford Mill Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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