Gilmour House, Former Byre and Barn is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse, byre, barn. 5 related planning applications.
Gilmour House, Former Byre and Barn
- WRENN ID
- north-glass-jet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, byre, barn
- Address
- Gilmour House, Former Byre and Barn, Main Street, Cotherstone, DL12 9QE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 011 197
- Coordinates
- 54.57292, -1.98384
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Gilmour House, formerly a farmhouse, byre, and small barn, dates from the late 18th to early 19th century and has undergone later alterations and additions. It is constructed of squared rubble with slate roofs; the byre features flagged eaves, while the barn has a stone-flagged roof. The house has stone chimney stacks and a linear plan, with the house and attached byre on the left, and a set-back barn attached to the left of the byre.
The two-storey, three-bay house has flush quoins on the right side. It features a central replaced, partly-glazed door set in a flush tooled surround, with a blank bay above the doorway. Flanking the door are 12-pane sash windows with flush sills and slightly-segmental heads that have flush voussoirs. The steeply-pitched roof has a stone ridge, coped grilles, and shaped kneelers, with end stacks that have top bands and water tables.
The four-bay byre, with flush quoins on the left, has scattered openings, including two fixed lights and a replaced 9-pane sash window on the right. It also has a steeply-pitched roof with a stone ridge, flagged eaves, and a raised verge to the left featuring reversed crowsteps.
To the left is a small barn with flush quoins. The rear of the house includes a two-storey outshut on the left and a lower outshut on the right. The rear of the byre has a central Dutch door flanked by altered openings.
Inside, the gable end truss of the byre features curved principals that are halved at the apex, with a collar extending beyond the principals to support the purlins.
The byre and barn are included for their group value.
Local climate
Gilmour House, Former Byre and Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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