Low Turney Shield Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Low Turney Shield Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings

WRENN ID
fossil-step-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Low Turney Shield Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings, West Allen, NE47 8AW
OS grid reference
NY 799 491
Coordinates
54.8369, -2.31309
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 17th or early 18th century farmhouse, possibly built on earlier foundations, and with adjacent outbuildings. It was restored in 1976. The farmhouse is constructed of rubble, with a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high and has three bays. The central door is boarded, and there's a renewed nine-pane window to the left and a four-pane fixed window to the right. On the first floor, a small, blocked window sits above the door, with small four-pane fixed windows to the left and right. Stone end stacks are present. To the left of the farmhouse is a one-storey outbuilding, consisting of two wide bays, with a boarded door and a stable door. The right return of this outbuilding displays corbels indicating the presence of an earlier stack. The rear elevation reveals an outshut with three small windows. In the right return is a 17th century chamfered doorway which was brought from a ruin at NY 799481. To the right of the farmhouse, another outbuilding has a chamfered doorway with massive jambs, flanked by small windows; the wall was rebuilt in 1976 using original features. Inside the farmhouse, prior to the 1976 restoration, the roof had two upper cruck trusses with ogival blades. The new roof structure is a copy of the original but with straight blades.

Local climate

Low Turney Shield Farmhouse and Adjacent Outbuildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 76 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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 — 3 transactions since 2002
  • Related listed building consents — 2 applications
  • 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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