Western House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. House.
Western House
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-fireplace-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Western House, Hexhamshire
- OS grid reference
- NY 915 546
- Coordinates
- 54.8862, -2.13269
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Western House is a house dated 1755, featuring the initials TMI on the door lintel, and incorporates earlier bastle fabric. It is built of rubble with long, roughly-shaped quoins and cut dressings, topped with a Scottish slate roof. The house has two storeys and three slightly irregular bays. There is a right-of-centre four-panel door set in a chamfered surround with the dated lintel above, and an 8-pane fixed casement window above it. The flanking bays contain paired 8-pane windows below and 6-pane windows above, all set in chamfered surrounds. The windows in the end bays were formerly of two lights. To the left of the window above the door, there are two tiers of blocked pigeon holes. The left gable is coped and features a stack that has been rebuilt in brick on an older stone base, while the right end stack is rendered. An adjacent later house to the right has been altered and is not of interest. Inside, recent alterations have revealed a gable-headed byre door of the bastle in the east wall, which is now concealed.
Local climate
Western House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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