Abbey Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Abbey Cottage
- WRENN ID
- steep-solder-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Abbey Cottage, Blanchland, DH8 9ST
- OS grid reference
- NY 965 504
- Coordinates
- 54.8489, -2.05497
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Abbey Cottage is an 18th-century house that was altered in the 19th century. It is constructed from rubble with roughly-cut quoins, tooled lintels, and sills, topped with a stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and three irregular bays. There is a boarded door located between the second and third bays, and the windows are renewed sash windows. The cottage features stone end stacks and a distinctive dogtooth ridge, where the stone slates overlap and alternate in projection above the ridge.
Local climate
Abbey Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- 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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