Low Horton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Low Horton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-paling-moth
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Blyth and Ashington MP: Ian Lavery (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 July 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Low Horton Farmhouse, Blyth, NE24 4HG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 281 796
- Coordinates
- 55.11053, -1.55963
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Horton Farmhouse is a house from the mid-18th century that was altered and extended at the rear in the late 18th or early 19th century. The building is constructed of squared stone, except for the rear block, which is made of brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 3. It has a Welsh slate roof with old brick chimneys. The south elevation features two storeys and three bays, with a central renewed door that has an overlight above it. The windows are mostly 4-pane sash windows, except for a 19th-century canted bay window on the left, which has a hipped roof. The gable coping is raised and reverse-stepped, with banded end stacks. To the right, there is a single-storey, one-bay kitchen that has a 20th-century 4-pane casement window and a stepped end stack. The left return of the house is part-rendered and shows renewed 16-pane sashes under wedge lintels in the rear block. The rear elevation has similar window styles, including a 20-pane sash stair window and an 8-pane Yorkshire sash window in the kitchen's outshut.
Inside, the farmhouse features fielded 6-panel doors and panelled shutters. There are round arches with panelled jambs at the foot of the stair, and a dog-leg open-string staircase with stick balusters, a moulded handrail, and a moulded newel.
The farmhouse replaced Horton Castle, which was later owned by the Delaval family. The site of the castle is now occupied by a group of detached farm buildings to the west, with the ruins having been removed in the early 19th century.
Local climate
Low Horton Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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