The Old Kennels Adjoining House and Yard Walls 60 Metres South East of Walled Garden in Nunwick Park is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Kennel block, house.
The Old Kennels Adjoining House and Yard Walls 60 Metres South East of Walled Garden in Nunwick Park
- WRENN ID
- veiled-finial-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Kennel block, house
- OS grid reference
- NY 878 738
- Coordinates
- 55.05904, -2.19141
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Kennels, which includes a former kennel-man's house and surrounding yard walls, dates back to 1768. Constructed from ashlar and squared sandstone, the house features a Welsh slate roof and a stone chimney. The building is designed in the Gothick style, characterized by pointed doorways and windows with Y-tracery set in flat-faced, chamfered surrounds.
The single-storey kennel block has three bays, with a central doorway flanked by windows and battlements on the rubble wall to the south. The ashlar returns on the east and west sides have similar features, including cross-loops, and a datestone inscribed with "L A I 1768" (for Lancelot Allgood) is located below the central embrasure on the west return. The north side has a large central opening and flanking doorways, but the structure is roofless.
The two-storey house has two bays and features ashlar quoins. It includes a blocked doorway and a two-light window, with a square opening above, on the west side. The low-pitched roof has coped gables and an end stack. A flight of stone steps leads up to a pointed archway on the north return, with similar door and window details on the rear.
The south yard is enclosed on two sides by a tall flat-coped rubble wall, with a pointed archway near the junction with the kennel block. The east yard is surrounded on three sides by a low ashlar wall with chamfered coping, featuring a raised section with a pointed archway in the center of the east wall. The west yard is enclosed on two sides by a low rubble wall with chamfered coping. Overall, the kennel block serves as a picturesque landscape feature, while the house is currently used for storage.
Local climate
The Old Kennels Adjoining House and Yard Walls 60 Metres South East of Walled Garden in Nunwick Park receives an average of 910 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 62% 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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