3, St Mary's Chare is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. House. 2 related planning applications.
3, St Mary's Chare
- WRENN ID
- plain-niche-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 October 1951
- Type
- House
- Address
- 3, St Mary's Chare, Hexham, NE46 1NQ
- OS grid reference
- NY 935 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97099, -2.1018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 3 St Mary's Chare is an 18th-century building that stands three storeys tall and features three windows. The front is made of painted ashlar, and it has glazing bar sash windows. The roof is slate with coped verges. A central recessed entrance is flanked by shop windows, which have a joint pilastered fascia above. To the left of the entrance, there is a six-panel door with a hood over it that leads to a through passage.
At the rear, there is a courtyard formed with Nos 5 and 7, which is partly flagged. The building is partly brick-built and also has glazing bar sash windows. The south gable end contains two attic lights. There are further extensions and outbuildings that extend into St Mary's Wynd, which are two storeys high and have three windows with glazing bars and timber lintels, along with two smaller two-light windows below the eaves. Brick chimneys are present, and there is a tumbled brick verge to the left.
No 3 St Mary's Chare is part of a group that includes Nos 1 to 19A (odd), Nos 2 to 8 (even), and Nos 16 to 20 (even), as well as No 4 Meal Market, with No 1 being of local interest.
Local climate
3, St Mary's Chare receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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 — 2 transactions since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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