Conduit House, 20 Metres South-East of Baxter Wood Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. A Medieval Conduit house.
Conduit House, 20 Metres South-East of Baxter Wood Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-truss-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Conduit house
- OS grid reference
- NZ 254 422
- Coordinates
- 54.7748, -1.60528
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Conduit House, located 20 metres south-east of Baxter Wood Farmhouse, is likely from the early 19th century and features a possibly medieval fragment of a cross head on top. It is made of squared, tooled-and-margined sandstone and stands about 1.0 metre high. The structure is a cubic block that is open on the east side, topped with a solid pyramidal stone roof and a cross finial.
Local climate
Conduit House, 20 Metres South-East of Baxter Wood Farmhouse receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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