Old Town Farmhouse with Wall and Archway Attached to West Side is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Farmhouse.

Old Town Farmhouse with Wall and Archway Attached to West Side

WRENN ID
sharp-copper-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1988
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NY 883 914
Coordinates
55.21693, -2.18403
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Town Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the 18th century, with a refronting that occurred in the mid-19th century. The rear section and the attached wall were built in the early 19th century. The building features ashlar and random rubble construction, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof. It has a double-span roof with a long wing extending to the rear.

The façade is two storeys high and consists of three bays. There is a central stone porch with a stone pent roof, and flanking it are 4-light bay windows with hollow-chamfered mullions and stone pent roofs. On the first floor, there are three 3-light mullioned windows. The roof is steeply pitched with gables, flat coping, kneelers, and banded end stacks.

The returns of the building have 12-pane sash windows. The rear section, constructed of fine early 19th-century ashlar, features 12-pane sashes with plain reveals and projecting sills. The rear wing includes one tripartite sash and additional 12-pane sashes. The gable end of the rear wing has a segmental carriage arch and boarded double doors.

Inside, the farmhouse has a staircase with stick balusters, along with 6-panel doors and shutters. The wall attached to the west side is L-shaped, approximately 20 feet long and 12 feet high. It features a central elliptical carriage arch, and to the right, there is a boarded door with a re-set segmental pediment above the lintel, which has a moulded surround, foliage trails, and a shield inscribed with "MER" for Errington Reed, dated MDCC.

Local climate

Old Town Farmhouse with Wall and Archway Attached to West Side receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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