Column Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1977. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Column Cottage
- WRENN ID
- worn-hammer-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1977
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Column Cottage, Bondgate Without, Alnwick, NE66 1PY
- OS grid reference
- NU 190 130
- Coordinates
- 55.4109, -1.7009
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Column Cottage is a building dating from after 1817, originally known as "Wager Cottage." It was constructed in a fortnight for the Duchess of Northumberland to win a wager with the third Duke. The cottage is set back on the corner with Prudhoe Street and is a single storey structure with a gable-lit attic. It features two windows and is built of ashlar with a slate roof. The central gabled porch projects and has "Percy Crescent" inscribed above the door. The windows are cross casement style with labels above them, and the gable ends are designed as open pediments. There is a central chimney on the roof.
Local climate
Column Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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