Two Farmbuildings, Flanking Drive to South East of Low Butterby Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Farmbuilding.
Two Farmbuildings, Flanking Drive to South East of Low Butterby Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-barrel-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Farmbuilding
- Address
- Two Farmbuildings, Flanking Drive to South East of Low Butterby Farmhouse, Croxdale and Hett
- OS grid reference
- NZ 275 393
- Coordinates
- 54.74827, -1.57312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Two detached farm buildings flank the drive to the southeast of Low Butterby Farmhouse. The first building is a former byre, now used for storage, located on the west side of the drive. It is possibly from the 17th century but was significantly altered in the 19th century. The structure is made of squared coursed rubble with a dark-purple slate roof and is a single storey with four bays. It features large squared quoins, two blocked doorways on the front flanking a blocked breather, and a doorway on the right with an inserted hit-and-miss window. The roof has stone ridge tiles, and there is a replaced Dutch door along with a breather in the gable of the right return. The left return has a tall plinth and two breathers, while the rear has a blocked chamfered doorway. A 20th-century garage at the rear is not of interest.
The second building is a barn with a lean-to shed, dating from the late 18th to early 19th century. The barn is constructed of squared rubble and has a handmade brick shed. It features a Welsh slate roof for the barn and an old pantiled roof for the shed. The tall single-storey barn has five bays, flush quoins, altered openings, and a steeply-pitched roof, with a segmental archway on the right return. The shed has a low front wall with battered brick buttresses and a pent roof, along with a wide elliptical archway on the right return. Altered and semi-derelict farm buildings at the rear of the barn are not of special interest. Both buildings are included for their group value.
Local climate
Two Farmbuildings, Flanking Drive to South East of Low Butterby Farmhouse receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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