Greenhead House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1988. Bastle house.

Greenhead House

WRENN ID
little-grate-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 May 1988
Type
Bastle house
Address
Greenhead House, the Green, Wall
OS grid reference
NY 916 690
Coordinates
55.01615, -2.13167
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Greenhead House is a bastle house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century, with alterations made in the late 17th century and 18th century. It is constructed of large rubble with dressings and features a Welsh slate roof, with stone slates on the rear and one brick stack. The building has two storeys and three irregular bays.

The left-of-centre door, which has been renewed, is set in a shallow porch that dates from 1631. This porch has a low-pitched gable and a re-used lintel inscribed with "FEARE GOD IN HART R.K.M.K." The windows are renewed plate-glass sashes set in late 18th-century openings. There are various blocked openings, including an original byre door with a flat-pointed head to the left and a first-floor door above the porch.

On the far left, there is a buttress-like projection that is part of the gable end of an earlier house to the west. The gables feature raised coping, and there are end stacks, with the right stack having been rebuilt in the 20th century on an old base. At the rear, there is an outshut from the 18th century, which includes a doorway with a chamfered surround.

Local climate

Greenhead House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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