High Birk Hat Farmhouse, Attached Barn and Byre is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse, barn, byre.
High Birk Hat Farmhouse, Attached Barn and Byre
- WRENN ID
- tenth-soffit-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn, byre
- Address
- High Birk Hat Farmhouse, Attached Barn and Byre, Hunderthwaite
- OS grid reference
- NY 933 187
- Coordinates
- 54.56404, -2.10455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Birk Hat Farmhouse, along with its attached barn and byre, dates from 1741, as indicated on the door lintel, with some alterations made in the mid-19th century. The buildings are constructed of squared rubble and feature stone-flagged roofs and stone chimney stacks. The farmhouse is a two-storey, four-bay structure with a replaced four-panel door and a three-pane overlight in the second bay. The door is set in a flush surround and has a lintel inscribed with "17 IID 41." The windows have flush lintels and projecting chamfered sills, including a small 12-pane sash above the door and flanking 16-pane sashes. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers, with end stacks that have top bands and water tables.
The two-storey barn has a blank front wall and a coped left gable. It is accompanied by a lower three-bay byre and loft. The byre features a central boarded door in a flush surround, flanked by partly-glazed hit-and-miss windows, with a boarded opening above the door. It has a low-pitched roof, and the right return of the byre includes an external stone stair leading to a boarded door.
Local climate
High Birk Hat Farmhouse, Attached Barn and Byre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 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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