West Heddon Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
West Heddon Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- strange-mullion-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Heddon Farmhouse, Heddon-On-The-Wall, NE15 0JU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 123 686
- Coordinates
- 55.0127, -1.80871
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Heddon Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with alterations made in the early 19th and 20th centuries. It is constructed of ashlar and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has three bays. The front has a 20th-century door set in a bolection-moulded surround, which includes a pulvinated frieze and cornice. The windows are four-pane sash windows. The roof has been raised by three courses of brick and has a gabled design with brick end stacks, while the rear features a catslide roof.
Inside, there is an early 18th-century fireplace that has an eared bolection-moulded surround, a frieze depicting two running hounds in relief along with scrolls, and a corniced mantelshelf.
Local climate
West Heddon Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% 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 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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