Elm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House.
Elm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sombre-beam-scarlet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm Cottage, 12, High Street, Witton-Le-Wear
- OS grid reference
- NZ 145 312
- Coordinates
- 54.67648, -1.77651
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm Cottage is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of roughly squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a roof made of pantiles that has two rows of stone slates at the eaves, and features yellow brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and three windows. At the front, there is a 20th-century central porch that leads to a partly-glazed six-panel door with a flat stone lintel. The outer bays have similar lintels above sash windows that contain late 19th-century glazing, and there is a blocked window above the door. The house has end chimneys.
Inside, the main ground-floor room includes a built-in dresser, and the original fittings are preserved throughout the house, although there are later fireplaces.
Local climate
Elm Cottage 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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