Garden Wall Attached to West Side of Shortflatt Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Garden wall.

Garden Wall Attached to West Side of Shortflatt Tower

WRENN ID
still-hinge-mint
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1986
Type
Garden wall
OS grid reference
NZ 078 809
Coordinates
55.12322, -1.87805
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The garden wall attached to the west side of Shortflatt Tower is an early 19th-century structure made of dressed stone. It features L-plan walling that stands approximately 10 feet high and stretches about 50 yards long, topped with flat coping. In a recess created in 1985 at the rear of the wall, there is a boulder displaying cup and ring markings that was ploughed up in a field on the estate.

Local climate

Garden Wall Attached to West Side of Shortflatt Tower receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% 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 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% 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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