High Swinhope Shield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House. 2 related planning applications.
High Swinhope Shield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pitched-facade-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- High Swinhope Shield Farmhouse, Allendale, NE47 9UU
- OS grid reference
- NY 843 490
- Coordinates
- 54.83622, -2.24481
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Swinhope Shield Farmhouse is a house dating from the late 17th century. It is constructed of large rubble with ashlar dressings and features reverse stepped gables and a stone slate roof. The front of the building has two storeys and two windows, with an off-centre 20th-century gabled porch. The windows were originally mullioned but have been altered. To the right, there are blocked single-light windows with chamfered surrounds on both floors. At the right end, there is one surviving wave-moulded jamb of a doorway that leads into a part of the house that has since been removed. The left gable has a corniced stone stack, while the right gable has an altered stack. The right return of the building has been largely rebuilt, while the left return features two single-light windows with chamfered surrounds in the attic. The rear elevation displays a similar first-floor window and another ground-floor window, of which only the head remains.
Local climate
High Swinhope Shield Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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