Hole Dam Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Hole Dam Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-storey-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Hole Dam Farmhouse, A689, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 830 412
- Coordinates
- 54.76565, -2.26456
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hole Dam Farmhouse is a farmhouse with an adjoining barn, dating from the late 18th century to early 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with quoins, and features roofs made of stone flags and Welsh slates. The building is two storeys high and has eight bays in a linear plan, with a one-storey, one-bay pent extension on the left side.
The first bay has a low segmental-headed arch, with a single-light window above it on the right. The three-bay house section has a central partly-glazed door flanked by late 19th-century sash windows, all set beneath painted thin wood lintels. The adjoining two-bay cottage has side steps leading to a door on a raised ground floor, with a 16-pane sash window to the right. On the first floor, there is an 8-pane narrow light on the left and a 6-pane sash window on the right. The barn on the right features a boarded door beneath a thin wood lintel.
Local climate
Hole Dam Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 76 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 54 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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