Blacksmiths and Joiners Shops to West of Pit Head is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 1986. Industrial.
Blacksmiths and Joiners Shops to West of Pit Head
- WRENN ID
- tenth-rampart-dock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 1986
- Type
- Industrial
- Address
- Blacksmiths and Joiners Shops to West of Pit Head, Ashington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 288 884
- Coordinates
- 55.18942, -1.54918
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blacksmiths' and Joiners' shops, built in 1894 and extended to the south in 1908, are located to the west of the pit head at Ashington Woodhorn Colliery. Constructed from yellow Ashington brick and topped with a Welsh slate roof, the east elevation features one storey and consists of 16 bays. It includes four large round-arched openings, two segmental-headed doorways, and a pair of boarded doors set under a timber lintel, along with round-arched windows, some of which have metal-framed casements. The rear has similar windows, some of which are partly blocked, and a banded lateral stack. Inside, there is a transverse wall with an elliptical arch between the workshops at the north end, and the northern workshop contains a corner hearth with a stepped brick hood.
Local climate
Blacksmiths and Joiners Shops to West of Pit Head receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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