Watch House Enclosure Wall with Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Enclosure wall with outbuildings.
Watch House Enclosure Wall with Attached Outbuildings
- WRENN ID
- quartered-loggia-root
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Enclosure wall with outbuildings
- OS grid reference
- NU 240 248
- Coordinates
- 55.51715, -1.62069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Watch House enclosure wall with attached outbuildings dates from the second quarter of the 19th century. It is constructed from rubble, with the outbuildings featuring Welsh slate roofs. The wall is made of whinstone rubble with cut dressings and has a semi-octagonal plan. The enclosure wall stands over 2 metres high on the outside and 1.2 metres high on the inside, topped with gabled coping. There is a pent outbuilding with boarded doors located in the western (landward) angles, and a narrow gateway is positioned in the centre of the west side. The height of the wall and the raised ground level within, along with the narrow single entrance, indicate that the enclosure was designed with a defensive purpose in mind.
Local climate
Watch House Enclosure Wall with Attached Outbuildings 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 greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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