Elwy Cottage and Laburnum Cottage and Branton Cottage and Garden Walls is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Terrace of cottages. 1 related planning application.

Elwy Cottage and Laburnum Cottage and Branton Cottage and Garden Walls

WRENN ID
under-wattle-meadow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Terrace of cottages
Address
Elwy Cottage and Laburnum Cottage and Branton Cottage and Garden Walls, East Green, Cotherstone
OS grid reference
NZ 013 194
Coordinates
54.5704, -1.98066
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Elwy Cottage, Laburnum Cottage, and Branton Cottage, along with their garden walls, form a terrace of three cottages built in the early 19th century, with some late 20th-century additions to the rear and right. The cottages are constructed from squared rubble and feature a graduated slate roof with stone chimney stacks.

The front of the terrace is continuous and two stories high, comprising five bays with flush tooled quoins. The entrances consist of partly-glazed six-panel doors set in flush surrounds, with paired doorways for Elwy and Laburnum Cottages in the second bay, and a single doorway for Branton Cottage in the fourth bay. There are blank bays above these doorways. The windows are 16-pane sashes with flush lintels and projecting sills. The cottages have end stacks and two ridge stacks that include top ledges and water tables.

The garden walls include a flat-coped front section with a narrow stone gate pier featuring a round top on the left, and a similar return wall at the junction between Laburnum and Branton Cottages.

The late 20th-century rear additions and a two-story addition to the right of Branton Cottage, along with a garden wall to the right of double iron gates, are not considered of special interest. The cottages are included for their group value.

Local climate

Elwy Cottage and Laburnum Cottage and Branton Cottage and Garden Walls sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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