Old Bridge End Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Gateshead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 2000. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Old Bridge End Cottage
- WRENN ID
- crooked-bronze-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Gateshead
- Constituency
- Gateshead Central and Whickham MP: Mark Ferguson (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 2000
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Old Bridge End Cottage, Hexham Road, Swalwell, NE16 3BN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 198 623
- Coordinates
- 54.95506, -1.69135
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Bridge End Cottage is a toll cottage that has been converted into a house. It was built in 1779, with additions from the 19th and 20th centuries, originally for the Gateshead to Hexham Turnpike. The cottage is constructed of dressed sandstone, which is rendered and painted, featuring ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof with ashlar coped gables and a single gable stack, along with two additional stacks. The building is a single storey plus an attic.
The main east front displays a three-light sliding sash window with 20th-century exterior shutters on the ground floor, and a similar two-light sliding sash window above, also with shutters. To the right, there is an addition with a glazed panel door. An early 19th-century addition to the left features a south elevation with a three-light casement window, which also has 20th-century external shutters. A 20th-century addition to the left includes a north front with a large three-light casement window and a single light window to the left.
The interior is reputed to retain original beams and a spiral staircase.
Local climate
Old Bridge End Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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