Cottage North West of Low Harperley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farm cottage.
Cottage North West of Low Harperley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-gable-jay
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Farm cottage
- Address
- Cottage North West of Low Harperley Farmhouse, A689, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 118 349
- Coordinates
- 54.7094, -1.81737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farm cottage built around 1820, located north-west of Low Harperley Farmhouse. The exterior features rough render with ashlar dressings and a pantiled roof, which has overlapping stone gable copings and a ridge, along with yellow brick chimneys. The cottage is one storey high and has two windows. The central entrance consists of a partly-glazed door framed by Tuscan pilasters and topped with an entablature. The windows have wide lattice glazing bars in paired casements, with each light having a lozenge shape and being set under label moulds. There are chimneys at both ends of the building.
Local climate
Cottage North West of Low Harperley Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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