Watch-House Approx 30 Yards South of Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Watch-house.
Watch-House Approx 30 Yards South of Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- fallow-jamb-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Watch-house
- OS grid reference
- NZ 197 850
- Coordinates
- 55.15937, -1.69219
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The watch-house located approximately 30 yards south of the Church of St. Mary in Morpeth was built in 1831. It is constructed from ashlar stone and features a Welsh slate roof. The building is single storey and has two bays. On the right side, there is a pointed-arched door, while the left side has a pointed-arched window that is currently boarded up. The roof is hipped on the right side and has flat coping with a small end stack on the left.
Local climate
Watch-House Approx 30 Yards South of Church of St Mary 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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