Adit Entrance of Swinhope Horse Level on South Bank of Swinhope Burn is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1985. Mine.
Adit Entrance of Swinhope Horse Level on South Bank of Swinhope Burn
- WRENN ID
- hollow-solder-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 August 1985
- Type
- Mine
- Address
- Adit Entrance of Swinhope Horse Level on South Bank of Swinhope Burn, Allendale
- OS grid reference
- NY 831 471
- Coordinates
- 54.81876, -2.2636
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The adit entrance of Swinhope Horse Level is located on the south bank of Swinhope Burn and dates from the early 19th century. This lead mine adit portal is constructed from squared rubble. It features a section of walling with an elliptical-arched adit portal and a square locker to the right. Just inside the portal, there are similar lockers on both the left and right sides of the passage, likely used for miners' lamps. Swinhope Mine operated from 1815 to 1872, and the horse level was created to connect with the earlier Whimsey Shaft, which worked the Swinhope or Williams Vein.
Local climate
Adit Entrance of Swinhope Horse Level on South Bank of Swinhope Burn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 76 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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