Chatterley Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. A C18 Farmhouse.
Chatterley Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- far-corner-shade
- 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
- Chatterley Farmhouse, Wear Bank, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 075 359
- Coordinates
- 54.71841, -1.88498
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Chatterley Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the second quarter of the 18th century and later. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with quoins and ashlar dressings, featuring a stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings on curved kneelers and brick chimneys. The building consists of two sections, each two storeys high and five bays wide, with the two left bays being part of the later addition. The first and third bays have battened plank doors set in plain stone surrounds, while the other bays feature late 19th-century sash windows with flat stone lintels and sills, except for the right door. Each section has quoins and an end chimney. At the rear, there is a one-storey outshut with a dull-width and catslide roof.
Inside, the first build includes a dog-leg stair with winders at the turn, featuring a plain round-topped handrail on wide stick balusters and a balustrade along the first-floor landing. The doors in the first build have either two or four raised and fielded panels, some with H hinges. A corner cupboard in the main ground-floor room has shaped shelves. The first-floor room boasts a painted stone corniced chimney-piece with a cherub's head on the frieze, flanked by tapered fluted pilasters.
Local climate
Chatterley Farmhouse receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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