Bank Head House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. House.
Bank Head House
- WRENN ID
- buried-gable-tallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Bank Head House, Ponteland
- OS grid reference
- NZ 153 772
- Coordinates
- 55.08975, -1.76148
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bank Head House is a mid-18th century brick house built in English Garden Wall Bond, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays, featuring a 20th-century panelled door set within a small gabled wooden porch. The ground floor has four-pane sash windows, while the first floor has renewed twelve-pane sash windows, all set beneath flat arches. A brick string course runs along the first floor. The steeply-pitched roof is finished with flat coping and tumbled-in brickwork in the gables. The house has corniced end stacks, with the right stack being rendered.
Local climate
Bank Head House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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