The Nook is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Cottage. 3 related planning applications.
The Nook
- WRENN ID
- roaming-corridor-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- The Nook, Lartington Lane, DL12 9BP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 019 177
- Coordinates
- 54.55507, -1.97168
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nook is a cottage dating from around 1830, located on Lartington Lane. It features a dressed sandstone front with coursed rubble returns and a stone-tiled roof, complemented by stone chimney stacks in a Tudor style.
The building is single-storey and consists of three bays, with a low plinth and small flush quoins. The central window is a small latticed casement, flanked by two 2-light latticed casements, all set in double-chamfered surrounds with a central mullion and hoodmoulds above. The hipped roof has overhanging eaves supported by square stone brackets. There are two central ridge stacks, set diagonally, with offset top bands. At the rear of the right return, there is a flat-roofed stone porch that has a replaced door in a chamfered surround.
There are later rear additions that are not of special interest.
Local climate
The Nook 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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