Old Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse.

Old Farmhouse

WRENN ID
open-tracery-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 March 1988
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Old Farmhouse, Ford
OS grid reference
NT 942 382
Coordinates
55.63744, -2.09335
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Farmhouse is a former farmhouse, now used for garages and storage, built in 1780 for William Carr of Etal Manor. The building is constructed of ashlar with an asbestos roof and has two storeys and four bays. There is a boarded-up door and overlight in the second bay, featuring a raised stone surround and a lintel inscribed with "HON WHC 1780." The windows are 12-pane sashes set in raised surrounds, and the building has a gabled roof.

Local climate

Old Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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