Bleach House Circa 20 Yards South East of Otterburn Mills is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Industrial.
Bleach House Circa 20 Yards South East of Otterburn Mills
- WRENN ID
- broken-gargoyle-sepia
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- Industrial
- OS grid reference
- NY 887 927
- Coordinates
- 55.229, -2.17786
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bleach House, located approximately 20 yards southeast of Otterburn Mills, is a disused bleach house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed from coursed stone and features a corrugated iron roof. The building is a small, single-storey rectangular structure with a boarded door situated in the gable end and has a monopitch roof. Inside, there are rows of rods for hanging wet cloth. This building is included in the register for its industrial-archaeological significance.
Local climate
Bleach House Circa 20 Yards South East of Otterburn Mills receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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