The Blackbird Inn is a Grade II* listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 August 1952. A C13 Inn. 11 related planning applications.
The Blackbird Inn
- WRENN ID
- waning-gable-thyme
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 August 1952
- Type
- Inn
- Address
- The Blackbird Inn, North Road, Ponteland, NE20 9UH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 165 729
- Coordinates
- 55.05117, -1.74274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Blackbird Inn is a former manor house that has been converted into an inn. It features a medieval tower that was altered and had a house added to it in the mid-17th century for Mark Errington. The building was restored in the early 20th century. The tower is constructed of large random rubble and has a stone slate roof, while the attached house is made of roughly-dressed stone with a Welsh slate roof and old brick chimneys.
The tower, located on the left, has a large projecting chimney with a stone base that rises to two tall brick shafts. To the right, there is a projecting three-storey gabled frontispiece that is blank on the ground floor and oversails above on two large rounded corbels. Above this, there are two 2-light double-chamfered mullioned windows with strings that rise to form hoodmoulds. The roof is gabled with kneelers.
Between these projections, there is a 20th-century door, and on the first floor, a 2-light window with a hoodmould and a panel above inscribed with "M:E" for Mark Errington.
The attached house to the right has a three-bay layout with a central gabled porch that features a round-headed door in an architrave. It also has a stone slate roof. The original Tudor-arched doorway within has "M.E." inscribed on the lintel. Flanking canted bay windows and 2-light windows above have double-chamfered surrounds, which are now all from the 19th century.
On the left return, there are 4-light mullioned windows with hoodmoulds on the ground and first floors, along with a 2-light window above.
Inside the tower, the ground floor has a tunnel-vaulted ceiling and a large 17th-century fireplace, with the lintel carved with crenellations.
Local climate
The Blackbird Inn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2020
- Related listed building consents — 11 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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