Park End is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 April 1969. House. 4 related planning applications.

Park End

WRENN ID
last-arch-wagtail
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 April 1969
Type
House
Address
Park End, B 6320, Simonburn, NE48 3AA
OS grid reference
NY 872 757
Coordinates
55.07559, -2.20133
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Park End is a country house that originated in the late 18th century, with flanking wings added around 1830 and further extensions made around 1900. The central block is constructed from dressed stone, while the additions are made of ashlar. The roofs are covered with graduated green slate, and there are dressed stone chimneys.

The house features a central block with wings that are set at right angles, with the right wing projecting further and having a 1900 extension at the rear. The garden front is two stories high, with a three-bay center that includes sash windows and a doorway on the right within raised surrounds. The left wing is notable for its giant angle pilasters, which are rusticated on the ground floor, and has a corniced string between the storeys. It also features a two-story canted bay with replaced sashes set in architraves, topped with an entablature and a deep cornice on brackets.

The right wing is two bays wide and also has giant angle pilasters. It includes a canted ground-floor bay with 12-pane sashes in architraves and a balustraded parapet, along with two sashes above and a wide entablature. The central block has a pitched roof, while the left wing has a hipped roof. The right wing features a steeply-pitched hipped roof with a tripartite dormer that has a pediment over the center light. The building has conjoined, cross-axial ridge stacks with corniced tops, and both wings have three-bay outer returns with similar architectural details.

At the rear, the central block has been re-faced, and a Venetian stair window was added around 1830. The right wing has a three-bay extension in a similar style, and a single-storey canted entrance bay with a distyle Tuscan porch and a balustrated parapet was added around 1900. The interior contains fittings from the late 19th to early 20th centuries.

This building should not be confused with Little Park End.

Local climate

Park End 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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