Town Farmhouse and Attached Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse, cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Town Farmhouse and Attached Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-parapet-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage
- Address
- Town Farmhouse and Attached Cottage, Whittington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 004 708
- Coordinates
- 55.03196, -1.99488
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises an 18th-century farmhouse with an attached cottage, altered in the early 19th century. It is constructed of random rubble with a Welsh slate roof and a boulder plinth.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three wide bays. A Victorian-era central door is set beneath a wooden hood with decorative bargeboards, and is framed by alternating-block surrounds. The windows are renewed 6-pane sashes with alternating-block surrounds. A small, blocked window is located to the right of the door. The roof is gabled with flat coping and two stone end stacks.
To the left of the farmhouse is a lower, two-bay cottage. It has a plank door on the left side and a 24-pane Yorkshire sash window to the right. Above these are two 12-pane Yorkshire sash windows. A projecting range to the left has a blank front wall and a single 6-pane sash window on each floor, placed asymmetrically, and a hipped roof.
Local climate
Town Farmhouse and Attached Cottage receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 10 transactions since 1995
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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