Garden and Yard Walls West of Witton Shields Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1986. Walls.
Garden and Yard Walls West of Witton Shields Tower
- WRENN ID
- seventh-bracket-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1986
- Type
- Walls
- Address
- Garden and Yard Walls West of Witton Shields Tower, Netherwitton
- OS grid reference
- NZ 123 904
- Coordinates
- 55.20778, -1.80765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The garden and yard walls west of Witton Shields Tower are the remains of a former house, likely dating back to medieval times. These walls are constructed from roughly-shaped large blocks with irregular quoins. They include the west and north walls of a building oriented north-south, featuring a large stack at the north end and a later addition beyond. The walls generally stand to a height of 1.5 to 2 metres. The west wall contains slopstone and various blocked openings. Notably, the unusual positioning of a now-blocked doorway in the west end of Witton Shields Tower aligns with a doorway in the remaining stub of the east wall at the ruined house, suggesting that this structure may date from the 16th century or earlier.
Local climate
Garden and Yard Walls West of Witton Shields Tower receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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