Townfield Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House. 3 related planning applications.

Townfield Cottages

WRENN ID
old-lantern-dawn
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
Townfield Cottages, Hunstanworth, DH8 9UP
OS grid reference
NY 951 483
Coordinates
54.82973, -2.07743
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Two houses, likely built around 1863 by Teulon. They are constructed of roughly-squared sandstone with ashlar and yellow brick dressings, quoins, and roofs of mixed blue and green slates. The houses are two storeys, five bays wide, with a one-storey, one-bay extension set back on the left. A partly-glazed door is located in the second bay, set beneath a segmental brick arch and flat stone lintel. Other ground-floor windows have wide segmental brick arches, one being a three-light window, and another with glazing bars and a central wood mullion. The first floor has three narrower windows with matching segmental heads, all with brick jambs. The long front gable over the first bay contains two small lancet windows in the peak. Smaller gables are positioned over two other windows. The set-back extension features a wide stone lintel above a 20th-century window. Brick quoins mark the corners. The roof is steeply pitched, half-hipped over the extension, with chimneys at the ridge in the second bay and at the front, diagonally-set with a central shaft between two smaller gables.

Local climate

Townfield Cottages 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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  • Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
  • Sale history — 5 transactions since 2001
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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