Cottage Occupied by Mr Iley, with Adjacent Outbuildings and Wall Attached is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 May 1988. Cottage, engine house.
Cottage Occupied by Mr Iley, with Adjacent Outbuildings and Wall Attached
- WRENN ID
- hushed-rood-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 May 1988
- Type
- Cottage, engine house
- Address
- Cottage Occupied by Mr Iley, with Adjacent Outbuildings and Wall Attached, Halfway House Cottages, Acomb
- OS grid reference
- NY 931 672
- Coordinates
- 54.99971, -2.10932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a cottage that was originally an engine house for the Fallowfield lead mine, built in 1779 and later extended in the 19th century. It is constructed of rubble with tooled quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The rectangular engine house features a projecting square stack on the north side and pent additions on either side.
The south elevation has a central section that is two storeys high with a basement, flanked by single-storey pent additions, and a similar lower addition on the far right. The central part has four-pane casements under timber lintels, while the left addition contains a 20th-century window and the right addition features a renewed 16-pane sash under a timber lintel. Each of the central section and the right addition has a boarded basement door.
On the rear elevation, there is a three-stage stack with a band just below the top, and a renewed door with a three-pane overlight to the right. There is also an attached section of wall from another 18th-century building on the far right. This site is noted for its important industrial archaeological significance.
Local climate
Cottage Occupied by Mr Iley, with Adjacent Outbuildings and Wall Attached 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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