Watch House Circa 25 Yards South East of Church of St Mary and St Michael is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 May 1986. Watch house.

Watch House Circa 25 Yards South East of Church of St Mary and St Michael

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 May 1986
Type
Watch house
OS grid reference
NT 996 322
Coordinates
55.58358, -2.00782
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The watch house, located approximately 25 yards southeast of the Church of St Mary and St Michael, was built in 1826. It is constructed from random rubble and features a Scottish slate roof. The building is single-storey and consists of one room, with a lower stone porch attached to the left side. The entrance has a plank door, and there is a 12-pane sash window in the gable end. The roof is gabled with flat coping and has a small square stack at the end.

Local climate

Watch House Circa 25 Yards South East of Church of St Mary and St Michael 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 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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