Nether Houses is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 January 1988. House, cottage. 4 related planning applications.
Nether Houses
- WRENN ID
- pale-foundation-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland National Park
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 January 1988
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- Nether Houses, Rochester, NE19 1RX
- OS grid reference
- NY 829 971
- Coordinates
- 55.26799, -2.26937
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Nether Houses is a house and cottage built in the early 19th century, constructed from dressed stone. The house features a Lakeland slate roof, while the cottage has a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has four bays. The house includes a six-panel door with a four-pane overlight located in the third bay, along with 12-pane sash windows that have projecting sills. The cottage to the right has a blank wall on this facade and a gabled roof with two banded ridge stacks. The house also has a second span at the rear, which consists of three bays with 12-pane sash windows. There is a panelled door and 12-pane windows on the right return of the cottage.
Local climate
Nether Houses receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 61 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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