High Crooked Well is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.
High Crooked Well
- WRENN ID
- sunken-screen-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High Crooked Well, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 902 388
- Coordinates
- 54.74492, -2.15227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Crooked Well is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early 18th century with later additions. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features stone-flagged and Welsh slate roofs. The building is two storeys high and has two bays, accompanied by a two-storey, two-bay byre and loft to the left, and a one-storey, two-bay barn further left. There is also a one-storey, one-bay pent extension on the right.
The house has a boarded door set in a square-headed chamfered stone surround on the right side, with sash windows to the left; the ground floor windows are late 19th century, while the upper floor features 16 panes. The left cow-house has a boarded door and sash windows above with glazing bars. The barn includes a full-height cart entrance and a loft opening on the right. The right pent extension has a doorway to the right, a small square window on the left, and pigeon holes with stone shelves in the upper part. A wide square chimney is located on the left side of the house.
Inside, there is a stone fire surround with a projecting lintel supported by double-cyma-moulded corbels, panelled cupboards to the right of the fire, and large beams. The older part of the building to the right of the current structure has been demolished.
Local climate
High Crooked Well 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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