Low Hawkwell Head is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House.

Low Hawkwell Head

WRENN ID
long-hall-umber
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Low Hawkwell Head, A689, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 871 377
Coordinates
54.73478, -2.20061
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Hawkwell Head is a pair of houses built around 1840. They are constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and feature a stone-flagged roof. The buildings are two storeys high and consist of five bays. The doors are boarded and have 4-pane overlights in the second and third bays. There are flat stone lintels above these doors and above the 16-pane sash windows, which have fine glazing bars and projecting stone sills. The ground floor and the first, second, and fifth bays of the first floor contain these windows. The houses also have three square stone chimneys, each with projecting thin stones at the base and below the top.

Local climate

Low Hawkwell Head sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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