Farewell Hall West Farmhouse, Cottage and Farmbuildings Adjacent on North is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse, cottage, farm buildings. 7 related planning applications.
Farewell Hall West Farmhouse, Cottage and Farmbuildings Adjacent on North
- WRENN ID
- heavy-truss-ash
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse, cottage, farm buildings
- Address
- Farewell Hall West Farmhouse, Cottage and Farmbuildings Adjacent on North, Darlington Road, City of Durham, DH1 3SX
- OS grid reference
- NZ 264 398
- Coordinates
- 54.7525, -1.59103
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The property comprises a farmhouse, a hind’s cottage, and adjacent farm buildings, dating from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The farmhouse is constructed of sandstone rubble to the ground floor, with a rendered brick first floor, and has ashlar dressings. The hind’s cottage is of sandstone rubble construction with some brick, also with ashlar dressings. The farm buildings are of rubble construction. The farmhouse and farm buildings have a Welsh slate roof, while the hind's cottage has a concrete tile roof.
The farmhouse is two storeys high and has four windows. A central entrance has a hardboard-covered door and a four-paned overlight, flanked by sash windows with glazing bars, flat stone lintels, and projecting stone sills. Four similar sash windows are located on the first floor. Brick chimneys are positioned at each end of the farmhouse.
The hind’s cottage, situated to the left of the farmhouse, is two storeys high with two bays, supplemented by a single-storey, one-bay extension. It has a renewed house door and ground-floor sash windows. Above are two horizontal sliding sash windows. All openings feature flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. Two ridge brick chimneys are present. A farm building extends to the right of the farmhouse and has thin wood lintels over hit-and-miss openings.
Local climate
Farewell Hall West Farmhouse, Cottage and Farmbuildings Adjacent on North receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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 — 7 transactions since 2013
- 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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