The Crown is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 October 1953. Residential.
The Crown
- WRENN ID
- pitched-plaster-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 October 1953
- Type
- Residential
- Address
- The Crown, Elsdon
- OS grid reference
- NY 936 932
- Coordinates
- 55.23335, -2.10061
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Crown is a farmhouse that was formerly an inn, built in 1729, likely incorporating an earlier structure. It features random rubble construction, including large, old squared stones, and is roughcast. The roof is made of graduated Lakeland slate and has been renewed with brick chimneys. The building is two storeys high with five windows. In the second bay, there is a boarded and battened door set within an architrave, which has a frieze inscribed with "JOHN GALION AD 1729" and a cornice supported by fine moulded stone brackets. The ground floor has five sash windows and a blocked door, while the upper floor also has five windows. The roof is gabled with overhanging eaves and features a decorative bargeboard on the left side. There is one end stack and two ridge stacks.
At the rear, there is a continuous outshut under a catslide roof. Inside, the building has early 18th-century roof timbers in the outshut, and it is said that the roof is also old. The interior includes two- and three-panel doors.
Local climate
The Crown receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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