Statue at Entrance to Nine Year Aud Hole on North of Cave Drive 250 Metres South West of Brizlee Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Statue.

Statue at Entrance to Nine Year Aud Hole on North of Cave Drive 250 Metres South West of Brizlee Tower

WRENN ID
quiet-courtyard-marsh
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1987
Type
Statue
OS grid reference
NU 156 145
Coordinates
55.4248, -1.75424
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This statue, located at the entrance to Nine Year Aud Hole on the north side of Cave Drive, is approximately 250 metres south-west of Brizlee Tower. It is a life-size figure of a hermit, likely dating from the late 18th century. The statue is made of cut sandstone and depicts a robed, bearded man standing next to the entrance of a natural cave that has formed due to the slipping of the sandstone cliff face. Similar statues can be found in the ruins of Hulne Friary, which are part of the landscape improvements made around 1770-1780 by Lancelot Brown.

Local climate

Statue at Entrance to Nine Year Aud Hole on North of Cave Drive 250 Metres South West of Brizlee Tower receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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