Burn Divot Drovers House and Sheepfold Walls is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Drover's house, sheepfold.
Burn Divot Drovers House and Sheepfold Walls
- WRENN ID
- hushed-garret-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 July 1987
- Type
- Drover's house, sheepfold
- Address
- Burn Divot Drovers House and Sheepfold Walls, Thirlwall
- OS grid reference
- NY 694 708
- Coordinates
- 55.0311, -2.48013
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Burn Divot Drover's House and the surrounding sheepfold walls are the ruins of a drover's house, dated 1736 on the door lintel. The house is constructed from dressed snecked stone and squared rubble walls. It is a roofless, single-storey structure with three bays. The central doorway features rusticated jambs and a lintel with a raised triple keystone, also dated 1736. The flanking windows have chamfered surrounds and were originally designed with two lights and a central mullion. The right gable end of the house remains almost at ridge height, while the left gable end has collapsed. The walls, which are 1.5 meters high, enclose a large U-shaped sheepfold with the house at its center, and they have roughly-shaped coping stones. This building holds social interest and contributes to the landscape value.
Local climate
Burn Divot Drovers House and Sheepfold Walls 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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