11 and 12, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. Pair of houses. 2 related planning applications.
11 and 12, The Square
- WRENN ID
- high-footing-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 April 1969
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- 11 and 12, The Square, Blanchland, DH8 9SR
- OS grid reference
- NY 966 503
- Coordinates
- 54.84767, -2.05409
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nos. 11 and 12 The Square are a pair of houses located in Blanchland. No. 11 dates from the mid-18th century and was altered in the 19th century, while No. 12 was built around 1900. No. 11 is constructed from coursed stone with tooled-and-margined dressings, whereas No. 12 is made of rubble with cut dressings. Both houses have stone slate roofs and are two storeys high with an irregular six-bay layout.
The doors are vertical-panelled, located in bays 3 (for No. 12) and 5 (for No. 11). No. 11 features late 19th-century sash windows, but all its openings are in blocked surrounds. There are two stone ridge stacks, with the one on the right being widened in brick, and a stone stack at the right end. The right return of No. 11 shows a renewed 12-pane sash window and a 16-pane sash window in a stone surround above, along with a reverse-stepped gable. The rear elevation of No. 11 has two small 19th-century first-floor windows that once lit the cells when this building served as a police station.
Local climate
11 and 12, The Square sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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