Animal Shelter on South Side of Swarland Park is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Animal shelter.
Animal Shelter on South Side of Swarland Park
- WRENN ID
- knotted-tower-crag
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Animal shelter
- Address
- Animal Shelter on South Side of Swarland Park, Newton-On-The-Moor and Swarland
- OS grid reference
- NU 161 025
- Coordinates
- 55.31698, -1.74657
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The animal shelter on the south side of Swarland Park is a cattle or deer shelter, likely built in the early 19th century. It is constructed from rubble with cut dressings and features one brick pier. The roof is made of Welsh slate and has a lead cap and finial. The building has a circular plan, divided into quadrants by full-height cross walls. The exterior is characterized by round columns with block capitals that alternate with similar half-columns at the ends of the cross walls, and it has a steep conical roof topped with a moulded finial, giving it an overall appearance reminiscent of a detached gin-gang. Inside, the roof structure of each quadrant includes diagonally-set ties that carry struts to the principal rafter, along with elbowed purlins. Later metal sheet infill between the piers is not considered of interest.
Local climate
Animal Shelter on South Side of Swarland Park receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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