Wansbeck Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 April 1987. A C19 Cottage.

Wansbeck Cottage

WRENN ID
tangled-buttress-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 April 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Wansbeck Cottage, B6343, Mitford
OS grid reference
NZ 173 859
Coordinates
55.16732, -1.72874
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wansbeck Cottage is a cottage built in the second quarter of the 19th century. It is constructed from tooled-and-margined stone with tooled-and-margined ashlar dressings and features a blue slate roof. The cottage is one storey high and has three symmetrical bays. It includes a plinth and an eaves cornice. The central entrance consists of a flush-panelled door with a 14-pane overlight, set within a chamfered surround and sheltered by a later trellis porch. There are three-light mullioned windows, all with chamfered surrounds and hollow-chamfered hoodmoulds. The roof is pyramidal, topped with a central stepped-and-corniced compound stack. To the right, there is a set-back pent outshut with a flush-panelled door. Wansbeck Cottage was formerly the village post office.

Local climate

Wansbeck Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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