East Unthank Farmhouse, Cottage and Adjoining Outbuilding is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Farmhouse, cottage, outbuilding.
East Unthank Farmhouse, Cottage and Adjoining Outbuilding
- WRENN ID
- final-rotunda-holly
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage, outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- NY 738 633
- Coordinates
- 54.96383, -2.40982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Unthank Farmhouse, cottage, and adjoining outbuilding date from the early 19th century, with the cottage built around 1840. The farmhouse is fronted with tooled and margined ashlar, while the barn is constructed of coursed rubble and the cottage of squared rubble, all featuring cut dressing and slate roofs. The farmhouse is two storeys high with three symmetrical bays. It has a central altered panelled door and 12-pane sash windows in moulded boxes, each with slightly projecting sills. The gables are coped with moulded kneelers and there are stepped brick stacks.
To the right, the barn has various doorways and a central external stone stair leading to a boarded door with alternating jambs, flanked by slit vents. Above this door is a second tier of slit vents, each with a chamfered surround, cut from a single stone. The cottage, located at the far right, is one storey and has two irregular bays. It features an off-centre boarded door under a 2-pane overlight, flanked by paired 8-pane casements, with a smaller window to the right. The right end of the cottage has a contemporary lean-to with a smaller boarded door. All openings have stone surrounds with lintels and sills that extend beyond the line of the jambs, each jamb featuring a single horizontal block at mid-height. The building has a lobby-entrance plan with a single stepped and corniced stack aligned with the doorway. The rear elevation displays a contemporary outshut.
Local climate
East Unthank Farmhouse, Cottage and Adjoining Outbuilding sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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