Low Town is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.

Low Town

WRENN ID
vast-bailey-sage
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland National Park
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Low Town, B 6318, Greenhead, CA8 7JD
OS grid reference
NY 682 662
Coordinates
54.99021, -2.49696
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Town is a farmhouse dated 1800, as indicated on the door lintel. It is constructed from squared stone with stone dressings and features a stone-tiled roof, which has rebuilt brick and dressed stone chimneys. The building has two storeys and two bays, with squared tooled quoins. The doorway, which has been replaced, includes a 2-pane overlight to the right. The doorway features raised alternating jambs and an oval plaque on the lintel that bears illegible initials and the date 1800. The windows have replaced sashes set in raised surrounds. The roof has coped gables, with a brick stack at the left end and a stone stack with a top ledge at the right end. There is a lean-to addition on the right return. The farmhouse was abandoned at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Low Town 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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