Barn and Workshop Adjoining Glenwhelt Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 November 1967. A Late C18, early C19 Barn, workshop.
Barn and Workshop Adjoining Glenwhelt Cottage
- WRENN ID
- night-ledge-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 November 1967
- Type
- Barn, workshop
- OS grid reference
- NY 661 654
- Coordinates
- 54.98282, -2.53114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a barn and workshop that adjoins Glenwhelt Cottage, dating from the late 18th century and early 19th century. It is constructed of squared rubble with stone dressings. The barn features a stone-flagged roof, while the workshop has a corrugated-asbestos roof and a stone chimney topped with brick. The barn is located at the rear of the cottage, with the workshop on the right side.
The barn is two stories high with two bays, featuring two replaced doors and a first-floor loading bay set in flush surrounds with alternating jambs at the rear. It has a steeply-pitched roof with coping at the junction. The workshop is also two stories, with three bays. The front, which faces the main road, has two doorways with alternating jambs, flanked by lean-to stone sheds, one of which has a stone-flagged roof. The workshop also has a steeply-pitched roof with a chimney on the right side rising through the front pitch and altered openings at the rear. The barn retains a pair of upper crucks. This building is included for its group value.
Local climate
Barn and Workshop Adjoining Glenwhelt Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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