Sledge Meadows is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Sledge Meadows
- WRENN ID
- unlit-pewter-mist
- 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
- Sledge Meadows, Nookton Burn, Hunstanworth
- OS grid reference
- NY 931 472
- Coordinates
- 54.81987, -2.10776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Sledge Meadows is a farmhouse located on a promontory formed by Little Nookton Burn. It consists of two sections, with dates of 1619 and 1679 marked on the lintels. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble, with some areas thinly rendered, featuring large quoins and a visible boulder plinth at the right end. The roof is made of stone flags.
The older section, likely the original farmhouse, has one tall storey and two bays, designed as a through-passage type. The left addition has two storeys and also consists of two bays. There is an irregular oak lintel over an empty doorway in the second bay, along with some alternate-block jambs. A blocked door in the third bay has a window inserted, with a similar lintel inscribed TEW 1679. In the fourth bay, there is a Tudor-arched doorway with a lintel inscribed TEW 1619, supported by large irregular-block jambs, featuring roll moulding and a moulded chamfer.
The left section has a wood lintel over the ground-floor window opening, while the first-floor openings have flat stone lintels and sills. The quoins and first-floor windows were added in the 19th century. The low-pitched roof has end chimneys on the two-storey part. At the time of the survey, the building was empty and used as a hay store.
Local climate
Sledge Meadows sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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