Standing Stone is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 April 1969. House.
Standing Stone
- WRENN ID
- scattered-kitchen-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 April 1969
- Type
- House
- Address
- Standing Stone, Matfen
- OS grid reference
- NZ 033 704
- Coordinates
- 55.02876, -1.94933
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Standing Stone, formerly known as Standing Stone Farmhouse, is a house dating from around 1700, with later alterations in the 18th century. It is constructed of dressed stone and features a Welsh slate roof, along with old brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance consists of a Gothick panelled door set within a bolection-moulded surround. The windows are 16-pane sash types, and there is a band at the base of the castellated parapet, which is not visible from the ground. The house has paired brick end stacks that include stone cornices and bases.
On the left side of the building, there is blank Gothick decoration. The ground floor features a pointed arch with a raised surround, while the first floor has a large quatrefoil with a raised surround, both flanked by slit windows. The parapet is adorned with three cruciform slits.
On the right side, there are three large stone waterspouts and a single-storey lean-to with a stone slate roof. At the rear, there is a continuous two-storey outshut.
Inside, the house contains two-panel doors, shutters, and a staircase with stick balusters.
Local climate
Standing Stone receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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