Wooley Cottage and Ruined Cottage Adjacent is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. House, ruin. 1 related planning application.
Wooley Cottage and Ruined Cottage Adjacent
- WRENN ID
- empty-rafter-jackdaw
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- House, ruin
- Address
- Wooley Cottage and Ruined Cottage Adjacent, Allendale, NE47 9AL
- OS grid reference
- NY 828 545
- Coordinates
- 54.88505, -2.26954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wooley Cottage is a house from the early 18th century that has been built onto the south end of a bastle, which dates back to the 16th or early 17th century. The house is constructed of rubble with cut quoins and dressings, while the bastle features heavy rubble with massive quoins. The house has a stone slate roof with corniced gable stacks.
The front of the house has two tall storeys and two bays. There is a renewed door in a chamfered surround with remnants of a moulded cornice. To the left, there is a 16-pane sash window, and to the right, a 16-pane fixed stair window. On the first floor, the left side has a 16-pane sash window, while the right side features a blocked 2-light mullioned window. All windows have chamfered surrounds and have been mullioned.
The ruined bastle to the right has an off-centre chamfered doorway with a flattened Tudor-arched head and a drawbar tunnel in the left jamb. There is a similar doorway above and to the left, which is now blocked, and a blocked window in a chamfered surround above and to the right. The left side of the house has a 19th-century window in the attic. The rear elevation features one ground-floor and two first-floor shortened sashes in chamfered surrounds. The wall of the bastle to the left has a small blocked window.
Inside the house, there is an 18th-century stair with closed strings, turned balusters, and a ramped moulded handrail, along with 18th-century fireplaces and roof trusses with curved principals. The interior of the bastle shows a large first-floor fireplace with a chamfered surround and the stub of an upper cruck roof truss. The bastle is roofless at the time of the survey.
Local climate
Wooley Cottage and Ruined Cottage Adjacent sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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