Former Chapel, Adjoining West Return of Great Isle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1968. Former chapel.

Former Chapel, Adjoining West Return of Great Isle Farmhouse

WRENN ID
floating-hearth-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 January 1968
Type
Former chapel
OS grid reference
NZ 303 269
Coordinates
54.63676, -1.53208
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The former chapel, now used as a farm building, is likely of late medieval origin, with alterations made around 1600 and in the mid-20th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and has a brick inner wall, topped with a corrugated asbestos roof. The building is a long, single-storey range that features a chamfered plinth and is attached to the left return of the Great Isle Farmhouse. At the left end, there is a rebated door jamb. To the right of the center, there are two blocked, four-centred arches with filleted, hollow-chamfered rear arches. A square, partly-blocked, and mutilated three-light mullioned-and-transomed window with alternating, double-chamfered jambs is located to the right of the pointed arches. There are also two similar blocked windows to the left of the center and several other blocked openings. The building has a low monopitch roof and was noted to be in a bad state of repair at the time of the survey.

Local climate

Former Chapel, Adjoining West Return of Great Isle Farmhouse receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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