Shankhead Lower Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Farmhouse.
Shankhead Lower Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- low-bronze-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Shankhead Lower Farmhouse, Bardon Mill
- OS grid reference
- NY 780 615
- Coordinates
- 54.9485, -2.34387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Shankhead Lower Farmhouse is a house dated 1764, as indicated by the lintel bearing the name 'George Ridley'. It is constructed of rubble with large quoins and features reverse stepped gable coping, topped with a stone flag roof. The front of the house has two storeys and two wide bays. There is an off-centre boarded door set in a chamfered surround. The ground floor has 19th-century sash windows with heavy lintels. The left end has a squared stone stack with a later brick flue attached, while the right end has a rubble stack. There are 19th-century outbuildings to the right, which are not of interest. At the rear, there is a continuous outshut with a corrugated iron roof. Inside, the farmhouse retains original fireplaces with grates in three rooms, one of which includes a cooking range.
Local climate
Shankhead Lower Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 64 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% 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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