Cartshed and Hen House C 50 Yards North-West of Fenwick Steads Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. A Georgian Cartshed.
Cartshed and Hen House C 50 Yards North-West of Fenwick Steads Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- slow-vestry-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 May 1986
- Type
- Cartshed
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- NU 079 395
- Coordinates
- 55.64946, -1.87589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cartshed with an attached hen house, located about 50 yards north-west of Fenwick Steads Farmhouse. The cartshed dates from the mid-19th century, while the hen house is from the 18th century. The cartshed is constructed of snecked stone, and the hen house is made of random rubble, both topped with pantiled roofs.
The cartshed features seven segmental arches and five pitching holes above. It has a gabled roof with flat coping and includes outside stone stairs on the left side. The single-storey hen house, attached to the right, has an interior that contains large stone nesting holes.
Local climate
Cartshed and Hen House C 50 Yards North-West of Fenwick Steads Farmhouse receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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