Keeper's Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. Cottages.

Keeper's Cottages

WRENN ID
low-finial-sienna
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland National Park
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Cottages
Address
Keeper's Cottages, Alwinton
OS grid reference
NT 933 072
Coordinates
55.35904, -2.10681
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Keeper's Cottages is a pair of cottages built around 1840. They are constructed from ashlar stone and topped with a Welsh slate roof. The cottages feature six bays and are two stories high, with one-bay cross wings connected by a single-storey, four-bay section. The design includes raised alternating quoins.

The doorways located in the second and fifth bays are framed by open porches that have catslide roofs supported by wooden Tuscan columns. Both the doors and windows are adorned with raised alternating-block surrounds. The cottages have boarded doors and 16-pane sash windows, each with hoodmoulds.

The roofs are gabled with projecting eaves, and there are tall square stacks with diagonal cornices positioned over the cross gables and in the center of the single-storey section.

Local climate

Keeper's Cottages receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 35 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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