Corner Cafe is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1977. Cafe. 1 related planning application.
Corner Cafe
- WRENN ID
- tall-minaret-snow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1977
- Type
- Cafe
- Address
- Corner Cafe, Market Place, Alnwick, NE66 1HP
- OS grid reference
- NU 186 132
- Coordinates
- 55.41306, -1.70773
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corner Cafe, located on Lisburn Street, is an early to mid-18th century building. It stands three storeys tall, featuring three windows on the first floor and two on the second. The exterior is finished with pebbledash rendering and rustic quoins, although there are no quoins on the ground floor. The building has a slate roof with three chimneys and late glazed casement windows that have moulded architraves.
The late 19th to early 20th century shop front has three lights and a door on the left, complete with a modillion cornice above the fascia and two panelled pilasters. There is a similar shop front on the north side facing Market Street, located on the wide gable end, with an entrance to the house to the left of this. Additionally, there are two windows and a rear entrance on Fenkle Street. The Corner Cafe also includes No 2 Fenkle Street as part of its listing.
Local climate
Corner Cafe receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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