Main Farmbuilding Group to East of West Hartford Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1987. Agricultural. 2 related planning applications.

Main Farmbuilding Group to East of West Hartford Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hidden-hammer-woodpecker
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
Cramlington and Killingworth MP: Emma Foody (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1987
Type
Agricultural
Address
Main Farmbuilding Group to East of West Hartford Farmhouse, A192, Cramlington, NE23 9JQ
OS grid reference
NZ 249 789
Coordinates
55.10477, -1.60985
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The main farmbuilding group to the east of West Hartford Farmhouse is a planned group of farm buildings, dated 1861, featuring the initials MWR (Matthew White Ridley) on the centerpiece of the north range. The buildings are constructed from snecked tooled stone with tooled-and-margined dressings and have Welsh slate roofs, although the eastern part of the north range has been replaced with 20th-century metal sheets, and the side ranges have 20th-century tiles. The buildings have coped gables, and most openings are framed in chamfered alternating-block surrounds.

The ranges are arranged around a yard that opens to the south. The barn, with a pent engine-house on the west, extends north from the center of the north range. The north range is two stories high and consists of five bays; its projecting centerpiece is the end of the barn, featuring boarded double doors under a segmental arch, a datestone above, and a keyed round opening in the gable. Each side part has two pairs of segmental arches, with five windows above.

The side ranges are single-story, with boarded doors and part-slatted windows in the east range, and stable doors and slit vents in the west range. The barn on the north side has part-slatted windows and a cart entrance on the east, which includes a girder lintel, a segmental relieving arch, and a recess on the left for the original sliding door, along with a round opening in the gable. The engine house features a boarded door and a cart entrance with a timber lintel, as well as a blocked flue for a former chimney on the west side. There are two external stone stairs leading to boarded doors at the rear of the north range.

This farm was originally a planned cattle farm and was formerly part of the Blagdon Estate. Later sheds that fill the yard are not of special interest.

Local climate

Main Farmbuilding Group to East of West Hartford Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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