Carrowcroft is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. House. 7 related planning applications.
Carrowcroft
- WRENN ID
- guardian-latch-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Carrowcroft, High Green, Romaldkirk, DL12 9DZ
- OS grid reference
- NY 992 220
- Coordinates
- 54.59356, -2.01275
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Carrowcroft is a house built in 1875, constructed from sandstone ashlar with a Welsh slate roof and stone chimney stacks. It has a square plan and stands two storeys high with an attic, featuring three bays and flush quoins.
The front of the building is symmetrical, with a central solid porch that has a pair of partly-glazed four-panel doors set in a round-arched surround, complete with a projecting keystone and impost blocks. This is flanked by banded pilasters and topped with a pierced parapet above a cornice. The façade includes 12-pane sash windows and an arcaded parapet above the porch. On either side, there are canted bay windows that rise two storeys, each divided by a cornice and featuring 8+12+8-pane sashes and arcaded parapets. The gabled attics above the canted end bays have scrolled feet, crowning pediments, and single 12-pane sashes. The eaves cornice is prominent, and the roof is steeply pitched and hipped, with two corniced ridge stacks.
The left return of the building has two bays with 12-pane sashes and two identical attic bays. The right return features a central two-storey canted oriel window topped with an octagonal spirelet and ball finial, flanked by 12-pane sashes.
There are attached ancillary buildings at the rear, but these are not of special interest.
Local climate
Carrowcroft sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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