Thorntree Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Newcastle upon Tyne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 March 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Thorntree Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- steep-thatch-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Constituency
- Newcastle upon Tyne Central and West MP: Dame Chi Onwurah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Thorntree Farmhouse, West Road, NE15 7QQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 202 653
- Coordinates
- 54.98271, -1.6856
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Thorntree Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around 1790. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with large quoins and features a Welsh slate roof with rendered chimneys. The building has two storeys and three bays, along with a low one-storey extension on the right. The central boarded door is set in irregular alternate-block jambs and has a renewed thin painted lintel. The flanking windows also have similar lintels, all three of which have been inserted to gain height. The three first-floor windows have painted tooled stone lintels, and all windows feature projecting painted stone sills. The farmhouse has banded end chimneys. It is built on the line of Hadrian's Wall, with a fragment of the wall exposed a short distance to the west. The name "Thorntree" comes from a thorn tree that grew on this fragment. At the time of the survey, the building was empty and boarded up.
Local climate
Thorntree 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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