Methodist Church is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Church.
Methodist Church
- WRENN ID
- brooding-stronghold-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Methodist Church, West Allen
- OS grid reference
- NY 795 497
- Coordinates
- 54.84223, -2.31976
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Methodist Church, dated 1825 on the door jamb, features a Sunday School extension from 1875, as indicated on the lintel. The building is constructed of rubble, partly rendered, and includes a squared stone porch topped with a slate roof. It is a single tall storey with three bays. The central gabled porch has double doors and a fanlight with radial glazing set under a semicircular arch. The name of the church, Limestone Brae Wesleyan Methodist Church, along with the date of construction, is incised and painted on the jambs and arch. The gable is coped and features moulded kneelers and a pyramid finial. Flanking the porch are margined sash windows with semicircular heads. The roof is hipped and covered with slate.
To the right, there is a lower two-bay extension that has a boarded door beneath a tall margined fanlight, with the lintel inscribed 'JUBILEE SUNDAY SCHOOL' along with its date. Adjacent to this is another margined sash window. A brick chimney is located on the right gable. The left return displays two margined sash windows with semicircular heads. The rear elevation features two additional similar windows, while the Sunday School section to the left has two 12-pane sashes. Most windows retain 19th-century coloured glazing. The interior has not been seen.
Local climate
Methodist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 76 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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