Field Head Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Field Head Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- young-bonework-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Field Head Farmhouse, A 691, Shotley Low Quarter, DH8 9TQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 077 522
- Coordinates
- 54.86513, -1.88117
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farmhouse, likely dating to the late 17th or early 18th century, that was altered around 1800, extended, and refenestrated in the late 19th century. It is constructed of roughly-cut rubble stone with large quoins, and has later cut stone dressings. The roof is tiled, with Welsh slates on the extension, and the ends have brick stacks. The main part of the house is two storeys high and three bays wide, with an uneven appearance. A boarded door is centrally positioned, set in a tooled stone surround and sheltered by a rustic wood porch. There are 24-pane Yorkshire sash windows either side of the entrance, and 12-pane sashes on the first floor, all with tooled lintels and sills. The gables are coped, with stepped end stacks. A lower, one-bay extension is to the right, with tooled-and-margined quoins; it has a casement window with a re-used tooled lintel above a 12-pane Yorkshire sash. It has a hipped roof. A low outbuilding to the left is not of architectural interest. Internally, there are some two-panel doors and a five-bay upper-cruck roof.
Local climate
Field Head Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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