How Gill House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
How Gill House
- WRENN ID
- fading-lead-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- How Gill House, B6277, Newbiggin
- OS grid reference
- NY 901 282
- Coordinates
- 54.64912, -2.1542
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
How Gill House is a late 18th-century house located on the south side of Newbiggin along the B6277. It is constructed of limewashed coursed rubble with quoins and painted ashlar dressings, topped with a graduated Lakeland slate roof featuring stone gable copings and rubble chimneys. The house is two storeys high with two bays and has a set-back, two-storey, one-bay extension on the left.
The entrance features a plain stone surround with a partly-glazed door positioned to the left of centre. The flanking late 19th-century sash windows have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The first-floor sash windows are similar, also with projecting stone sills and lintels at the eaves. The roof is supported by moulded kneelers and has flat gable copings, with an ashlar chimney on the left and a rubble chimney on the right, both featuring top strings. The slightly later left extension has renewed fixed lights and a chimney at the left end. The left return of the main block displays throughstones in a blank gable.
Local climate
How Gill House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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