Humbleton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 July 1985. A C18 Farmhouse.

Humbleton Farmhouse

WRENN ID
solitary-corridor-lake
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 July 1985
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Humbleton Farmhouse, Whorlton
OS grid reference
NZ 092 172
Coordinates
54.55084, -1.85914
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Humbleton Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 18th century. It is constructed of snecked sandstone with dressed quoins and some rubble in the lower courses, topped with a flagged roof and brick stacks. The building has a hearth-passage plan and stands two storeys high with three wide bays.

The entrance features a 20th-century door set in a gabled wood porch located in the third bay from the left. The facade includes three 19th-century four-pane sash windows with projecting sills, and there is a blocked fire window to the left of the door. On the first floor, there are a 16-pane sash window and two 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows, along with a blocked window above the doorway. The eaves slightly project, and the flat-coped gables have shaped kneelers.

The left end stack has a single stone course, a water table, and a rebuilt brick chimney, while both the ridge and right end stacks have been rebuilt. At the rear, there is a later single-storey outshut and a low, short gabled wing. An attached garage is located to the left, and a stable is situated at the rear, neither of which are of special interest.

Local climate

Humbleton Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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