Cottage on East Bay of High Town House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Cottage.
Cottage on East Bay of High Town House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-gravel-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Cottage on East Bay of High Town House, A 69 (T), Melkridge
- OS grid reference
- NY 737 640
- Coordinates
- 54.97052, -2.41226
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This cottage, likely built in the early to mid 19th century, consists of two sections and is located on the east bay of High Town House. It features coursed rubble construction with stone dressings, stone-flagged and Welsh slate roofs, and both stone and brick chimneys. The cottage is two storeys tall and has three bays, situated on a sloping site. The left bay is taller and has replaced casement windows set in raised surrounds, with a stone-flagged roof that is hipped on the left and a stone chimney. The two bays on the right have similar window styles and a 20th-century doorway, with a Welsh slate roof and a rebuilt brick chimney on the right. There is a 19th-century outshut at the left rear, while a late 20th-century addition on the right rear is not of special interest. The cottage is included for its group value with High Town House.
Local climate
Cottage on East Bay of High Town House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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