Edge Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1987. Farmhouse.
Edge Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings
- WRENN ID
- open-groin-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Edge Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings, Diddridge Lane, Hamsterley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 132 317
- Coordinates
- 54.68062, -1.79566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Edge Knoll Farmhouse and attached farm buildings date from around 1725 and have undergone alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The structure is made of thinly-rendered rubble with coarse sandstone ashlar dressings, quoins, and part boulder plinth. It features a stone-flagged roof with a stone ridge and stone gable copings. The main range has three rear wings and is two storeys high with four bays, the fourth bay being wider. To the left, there are one-storey, two-bay farm buildings set back, and to the right, a one-storey, one-bay extension.
A one-storey porch located in the second bay has an embattled parapet above renewed double doors set in a segmental-headed moulded stone surround with a dropped key. The windows are plain sashes with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The right extension has a battlemented parapet with 20th-century masonry and a glazed door featuring glazing bars. The roof includes curved kneelers and three corniced ridge chimneys with strings. The rear wings are slightly lower and have gables treated similarly, with side stone steps leading to a first-floor door in the right wing.
Inside, the farmhouse displays large chamfered beams and a round-headed corner cupboard in one of the ground-floor rooms.
Local climate
Edge Knoll Farmhouse and Attached Farm Buildings receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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