Thomas Bewick's Birthplace at Cherryburn is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 March 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Thomas Bewick's Birthplace at Cherryburn
- WRENN ID
- odd-stair-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 March 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Thomas Bewick's Birthplace at Cherryburn, Station Bank, Prudhoe, NE43 7DD
- OS grid reference
- NZ 075 626
- Coordinates
- 54.95842, -1.88412
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thomas Bewick's birthplace at Cherryburn is a former cottage and attached byre, now used as a hay store and stable. The cottage dates from the 18th century, while the byre is from the 19th century. It is constructed of whitewashed stone and has a Welsh slate roof. The single-storey cottage on the right features two plank doors in the center, a small four-pane window to the left, and a half-slatted window to the right. A sundial is set into the wall to the left of the door, and there is an upper door to the hay loft on the right side. The two-storey byre to the left has a plank door on the right with a pitching door above and a hit-and-miss window to the left. Both buildings have gabled roofs, with the cottage having a much steeper pitch and flat coping on the left gable. This site is historically significant as the birthplace of Thomas Bewick in 1753, which is noted on a 20th-century plate above the cottage door.
Local climate
Thomas Bewick's Birthplace at Cherryburn receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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