Warden Hill Farmhouse East Part Warden Hill Farmhouse West Part and Byre Adjoining is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. A C17 Farmhouse.

Warden Hill Farmhouse East Part Warden Hill Farmhouse West Part and Byre Adjoining

WRENN ID
second-quartz-rain
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
OS grid reference
NY 915 384
Coordinates
54.74059, -2.13281
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Warden Hill Farmhouse consists of two houses and an adjoining byre, dating from the 17th century with some alterations. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble, featuring some quoins and ashlar dressings, with a stone-flagged roof. The right house has been painted. It is two storeys high with a total of four, three, and four bays.

The central house has a modern glazed door on the left with irregular jambs beneath a thin stone lintel. There are two renewed three-light casements on the ground floor, which are set under a full-width dripstring made with throughstones. Above, there is a renewed light on the left and a blocked light on the right, both with similar dripstrings and thin stone sills. The second house on the right includes a modern porch in the second bay and renewed casements in plain stone surrounds, along with some dripstrings. The roof features three low ridge chimneys. The byre has a boarded Dutch door in the second bay and another boarded door at the right end, with thin stone lintels and sills for the windows in the other bays, which are smaller on the upper floor.

The rear elevation displays some small single lights with chamfered stone surrounds, including one that is blocked and another with a vertical iron bar.

Historically, the Weardale chest, an 18th-century muniment chest for the community of the Forest of Weardale, was kept here.

Local climate

Warden Hill Farmhouse East Part Warden Hill Farmhouse West Part and Byre Adjoining sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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