Hethpool House is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. House. 2 related planning applications.
Hethpool House
- WRENN ID
- watchful-quoin-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Hethpool House, Kirknewton, NE71 6TW
- OS grid reference
- NT 896 283
- Coordinates
- 55.54911, -2.1663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hethpool House is a house built in 1919, as indicated by a roundel in the rear porch gable. It was designed by Cahill of Alnwick and is situated on the site of a house built in 1687, incorporating some of its masonry. The house underwent additions in 1928 by Robert Mauchlin of Newcastle for Sir Arthur Munro Sutherland. It features a roughcast exterior with ashlar dressings and a Devonian slate roof, showcasing an Arts-and-Crafts style. The building is two storeys high with a double-span roof, a projecting wing at the rear, and a later round tower attached to the right.
The original structure has six bays, with a doorway located in the second bay. This doorway features a glazed door set in a large gabled porch with a round-arched entry and a sundial in the gable. The house has 12-pane sash windows in raised surrounds. To the left, there is a high projecting round tower with similar windows, a shield displaying the Sutherland coat of arms, and a conical roof. A second, lower rounded projection is attached to the left side of this tower and has a conical pent roof. The rear of the house has similar decorative features, including a doorway with a moulded surround and a lintel dated 1687.
Inside, the house reflects a contemporary restrained Arts-and-Crafts style, featuring massive rough beams, early 18th-century style fireplaces, and a staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
Hethpool House receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% 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 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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 — 2 applications
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- Radon risk assessment
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