Barn and Attached Wheel House to West of Birk Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. A Late C18/Early C19 Barn, wheel-house.

Barn and Attached Wheel House to West of Birk Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
former-moulding-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Barn, wheel-house
Address
Barn and Attached Wheel House to West of Birk Hall Farmhouse, Brignall
OS grid reference
NZ 058 129
Coordinates
54.51172, -1.91058
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a late 18th century barn with an early 19th century wheel-house located to the west of Birk Hall Farmhouse. The structure is built from coursed rubble with cut quoins and dressings. The barn features a stone slate roof, while the wheel-house has a pantile roof with stone slates at the eaves.

The barn includes a stable door on the south side and two tiers of slit vents, with coped gables. There are also slit vents in the end walls and a boarded pitching door in the west gable. The rounded wheel-house on the north side has a boarded opening on the east and projecting rectangular piers on either side, topped with a hip-ended roof.

Inside the wheel-house, there is a stable door leading into the barn and a king-post roof truss situated between the piers.

Local climate

Barn and Attached Wheel House to West of Birk Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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