Hethpool Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 May 1986. Cottages.
Hethpool Cottages
- WRENN ID
- rough-bronze-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 May 1986
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Hethpool Cottages, 1-4, Kirknewton
- OS grid reference
- NT 894 282
- Coordinates
- 55.54814, -2.16818
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hethpool Cottages are a pair of semi-detached cottages built in 1926 by Robert Mauchlin for Sir Arthur Munro Sutherland. The cottages are constructed from brick, painted and roughcast in different sections, and feature a Devonian slate roof and ashlar chimneys. A notable round tower feature is located on the right return, made from random rubble with ashlar dressings.
The cottages are designed in the Arts-and-Crafts style and stand at one and a half storeys. Each pair consists of ten bays, with six-bay centres and slightly projecting, cross-gabled, two-bay wings. In the third and eighth bays, there are plank and battened doors set in round-headed doorways, which are adorned with ashlar arches, keystones, and imposts.
The ground floor features 16-pane sash windows, while the first floor has 12-pane sashes in the wings and dormer windows. A low linking archway between the blocks is made of ashlar and has a round-headed arch with a keystone, flanked by cruciform recesses.
On the right return, there is a single-storey round projection that includes two 12-pane sashes and a conical roof topped with a stone thistle finial.
Local climate
Hethpool Cottages 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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