Cart Shed and Lean-To Shed West of High Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. A Early C19 Shed.
Cart Shed and Lean-To Shed West of High Town House
- WRENN ID
- brooding-quoin-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Shed
- Address
- Cart Shed and Lean-To Shed West of High Town House, A 69 (T), Melkridge
- OS grid reference
- NY 736 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97058, -2.41285
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cart shed and lean-to shed, located west of High Town House, date from the early 19th century and are now used as loose boxes and storage. They are constructed from squared stone in narrow courses, featuring ashlar dressings, with roofs made of corrugated asbestos and stone flags. The single-storey cart shed has three elliptical arches supported by rectangular piers and a corrugated-asbestos roof. The lean-to shed, positioned on the left return of the cart shed, has two boarded doors and a stone-flagged pent roof. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Cart Shed and Lean-To Shed West of High Town House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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