Matfen High House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House.
Matfen High House
- WRENN ID
- riven-corbel-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- NZ 051 697
- Coordinates
- 55.02195, -1.92156
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Matfen High House, formerly known as High House, is a house dating from around 1840, although it has an earlier core. It is built of random rubble with ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof, designed in the Tudor style. The house has two storeys and three bays. The entrance is a Tudor-arched door with a moulded surround, located in a gabled porch that has kneelers. The windows are two-light, double-chamfered, set in raised surrounds, with 12-pane sashes in each light. There are angle pilaster strips and stone brackets that support the eaves. The gabled roof is adorned with kneelers and ridged coping, and there are end stacks featuring four corniced conjoined octagonal shafts. Additionally, a re-used lintel on the rear door is dated 1723.
Local climate
Matfen High House 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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