Great Chesters Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 July 1987. Farmhouse.

Great Chesters Farmhouse

WRENN ID
heavy-finial-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland National Park
Constituency
Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 July 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Great Chesters Farmhouse, B 6318, Greenhead
OS grid reference
NY 704 668
Coordinates
54.99544, -2.46316
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Great Chesters Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the early to mid-18th century, with additions made in the mid-19th century. The structure is made of coursed rubble, rendered on the front, and features a purple slate roof with stone chimneys. The original part of the farmhouse is a three-storey, two-bay main block, which has a two-storey, one-bay addition on the right side from the 19th century.

At the junction of the two sections, there is a 19th-century gabled stone porch that has a boarded door and a four-pane overlight. The main block has four-pane sash windows in 19th-century openings on the ground floor, and two replaced sashes in raised surrounds on the first floor. There is also a central horizontal window in a raised surround just below the eaves. The roof features coped gables and shaped kneelers, with end stacks that have top ledges and water tables.

The slightly lower addition has four-pane sashes on each floor, and its roof has lower eaves and ridge, with a coped right gable and a right end stack with a top band. At the rear of the main block, there is a 19th-century two-storey outshut and a gabled porch. Inside, the roof of the main block has two pairs of upper crucks with collars, which support two rows of adzed purlins and are crossed at the ridge piece. There is a single-storey farm building on the left return, but it is not of special interest.

Local climate

Great Chesters Farmhouse 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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