Outbuilding 15 Metres North of Birkshaw House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Outbuilding.
Outbuilding 15 Metres North of Birkshaw House
- WRENN ID
- eternal-lantern-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Outbuilding
- OS grid reference
- NY 776 657
- Coordinates
- 54.98565, -2.35134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The outbuilding located 15 metres north of Birkshaw House is a bastle house dating from the late 16th century or early 17th century. It is constructed of rubble with large quoins and stone dressings, featuring gables with reverse stepped coping, although it has a 20th-century asbestos roof. The building is two storeys high and consists of two bays with irregular openings. The ground floor includes a small window and a stable door with a timber lintel, while the first floor has a small window and a boarded doorway with a chamfered surround, along with a 6-pane fixed window. The right side of the building has an original slit cut obliquely through the wall. The rear elevation, which is built into the hillside, has a 20th-century garage door inserted.
Inside, the original transverse beams support the floor, and the first floor shows traces of a firehood against the east gable. There is a central principal rafter truss with a heavy chamfered tie-beam and a single level of large purlins.
Local climate
Outbuilding 15 Metres North of Birkshaw House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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