Wark Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.

Wark Cottage

WRENN ID
drifting-nave-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Wark Cottage, Road to Callaly, Whittingham, NE66 4RB
OS grid reference
NU 070 118
Coordinates
55.40093, -1.89038
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Wark Cottage is a house dating from 1851, situated on the north side of Whittingham Village, near Callaly. Constructed of ashlar, it has a Welsh slate roof and is built in the Tudor style. The house is two storeys high and has three bays. The central entrance is a boarded door. The ground floor also features small four-pane sashes. The first floor has three gabled half-dormers, each containing a two-light window with close-set, diamond-paned sashes. The date '1851' is inscribed on the lintel of the central first-floor window. The roof is gabled, with ridged coiling and tall, paired, corniced diagonally-set end stacks.

Local climate

Wark Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2007
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • 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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