Fenwick Shield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1986. Farmhouse.
Fenwick Shield Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- quiet-string-equinox
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Fenwick Shield Farmhouse, Matfen
- OS grid reference
- NZ 057 721
- Coordinates
- 55.04368, -1.9118
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Fenwick Shield Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1830. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The building has two storeys and three bays. The entrance includes a Victorian panelled door with a four-pane overlight above it. The farmhouse also has 16-pane sash windows. The roof is gabled with flat coping and has banded end stacks. Additionally, there is a large stair window located at the rear of the property.
Local climate
Fenwick Shield Farmhouse receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 26 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 8 transactions since 1996
- No related consent applications matched
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- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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