Old Cottage 30 Metres North East of Abbey Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Cottage. 1 related planning application.

Old Cottage 30 Metres North East of Abbey Cottages

WRENN ID
mired-thatch-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Cottage
OS grid reference
NZ 061 151
Coordinates
54.53133, -1.90667
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Cottage, located 30 metres north-east of Abbey Cottages, is a cottage that likely dates back to the 17th century, with extensions from the 18th century. It is constructed from rubble and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building has two storeys and two bays, with one room on each floor and later single-storey extensions. The front has a boarded door on the left, but the window openings have lost their original carpentry. There are reduced end stacks, and pent additions on the left side include a blocked door, while the right side has a window under a timber lintel. At the rear, there is a segmental stair projection with a slit window, and another small window with a stone surround at the first-floor level to the left, along with a projecting gabled single-storey wing.

Inside, the cottage features two transverse beams with pyramid chamfer stops, a fireplace with a segmental brick arch, and a wooden newel stair. At the time of the survey, the cottage was derelict and in poor condition, with part of the rear of the southern extension partially collapsed.

Local climate

Old Cottage 30 Metres North East of Abbey Cottages receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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