Wood Cabin Circa 100 Yards South-East of Catcleugh House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. Wood cabin.

Wood Cabin Circa 100 Yards South-East of Catcleugh House

WRENN ID
weathered-railing-wind
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 January 1988
Type
Wood cabin
OS grid reference
NT 750 031
Coordinates
55.32193, -2.39461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This wood cabin, built around 1891, is located approximately 100 yards southeast of Catcleugh House. It was constructed as part of the shanty town known as 'Newcastle' to accommodate workers who were building the Catcleugh Reservoir for the Newcastle and Gateshead Water Company.

The cabin features wood boarding and a corrugated-iron roof, along with snecked stone chimneys. It is a single-storey structure with four bays. There is a small gabled porch in the second bay, which has a boarded door on the right side. The cabin includes three 12-pane Yorkshire sash windows and has a gabled roof with banded ridge stacks.

This building is included in the register for its social historical value.

Local climate

Wood Cabin Circa 100 Yards South-East of Catcleugh House receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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