Garden Cottage and Stables to North West of Shortflatt Tower is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Cottage and stables. 2 related planning applications.

Garden Cottage and Stables to North West of Shortflatt Tower

WRENN ID
tangled-wall-peregrine
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 August 1986
Type
Cottage and stables
Address
Garden Cottage and Stables to North West of Shortflatt Tower, Belsay, NE20 0HD
OS grid reference
NZ 078 810
Coordinates
55.12372, -1.87802
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Garden Cottage and stables, located to the northwest of Shortflatt Tower, were originally the coach house and groom's cottage. They date from the early 19th century and early 20th century. The structure features dressed stone with tooled-and-margined ashlar dressings on the older sections, while the 20th-century part is made of brick. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate. The building consists of three ranges surrounding an open courtyard, with the older sections on the left and right connected by a 20th-century range at the rear. It is two storeys high.

On the left side is the Garden Cottage, which has three bays and features two segmental arches with boarded double doors. The other windows are renewed 9-pane sashes.

On the right side is the stable and coach house, which has six bays and includes high segmental-arched carriage doors in the third bay, various boarded doors, and one 12-pane Yorkshire sash window. There are small 8-pane Yorkshire sashes in the granary above. The older sections have gabled roofs with kneelers and corniced end stacks.

The linking range has three bays and features a central boarded door with a pitching door above in a half dormer, along with sash windows and a hipped roof.

Local climate

Garden Cottage and Stables to North West of Shortflatt Tower 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 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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