Townfoot and Attached Kennel is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 May 1987. House.
Townfoot and Attached Kennel
- WRENN ID
- mired-zinc-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 May 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Townfoot and Attached Kennel, Elsdon
- OS grid reference
- NY 934 930
- Coordinates
- 55.2313, -2.10378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Townfoot and attached kennel is a house and kennel likely dating from the early 18th century, with an earlier core. It was altered and raised to two storeys in the mid-19th century. The building features random rubble construction, with the first floor made of snecked stone and ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof and stone flags on the kennel. The house is two storeys high with three bays and includes a late 19th-century wooden porch adorned with decorative bargeboards and terracotta cresting. The windows are four-pane sashes with projecting sills, and the guttering is supported on stone brackets. The roof is gabled with flat coping and kneelers, and there are corniced end stacks.
The left side of the building has massive random rubble, while the rear displays slightly more even stonework, suggesting it may have origins as a bastle house, with walls approximately three feet thick.
Attached to the front left corner of the house is a small kennel from the 18th or early 19th century, featuring a segmental-arched doorway and a gabled roof.
Local climate
Townfoot and Attached Kennel 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2016
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