Whickham Thorns Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 November 1985. House. 7 related planning applications.

Whickham Thorns Farmhouse

WRENN ID
forbidden-slate-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Gateshead
Constituency
Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
18 November 1985
Type
House
Address
Whickham Thorns Farmhouse, Market Lane, NE11 9NX
OS grid reference
NZ 220 617
Coordinates
54.95013, -1.65664
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Whickham Thorns Farmhouse is a house built in the mid-18th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with large quoins and features a pantiled roof that has two corniced brick chimneys at either end. The building has two storeys and three windows. The central bay contains two 19th-century doors that have been inserted under a flat stone lintel. The windows have been altered to casements and are set in chamfered stone surrounds. The roof has a low gable parapet made of large stepped stones. At the rear, there is a one-storey, one-bay offshoot with a catslide roof, which includes a folding boarded door and an external flight of stone steps leading to a boarded kitchen entrance. Inside, there is a 19th-century staircase, and the doors have been boarded over.

Local climate

Whickham Thorns Farmhouse receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% 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 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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