Sundorne and Milburn, Adjoining to Right is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Cottage.

Sundorne and Milburn, Adjoining to Right

WRENN ID
winter-vestry-snow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NY 873 388
Coordinates
54.74474, -2.19841
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sundorne and Milburn are two adjoining cottages built in the early 19th century. Sundorne features coursed rubble construction and has a stone-flagged roof. It is two storeys tall with one bay, and has 20th-century windows, a glazed door, and a sun porch. There is a chimney at the right end.

Milburn is also two storeys high and has four windows. It includes a six-panel door with a plain overlight, set in a tooled surround within a 19th-century cast iron trellis porch. The windows are 12- and 16-pane sashes with flush lintels and sills, and there is a chimney at the right end.

Sundorne is noted for its group value as part of the terrace that includes the Reading Room.

Local climate

Sundorne and Milburn, Adjoining to Right 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 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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