Blades Field Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to East is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. A C18 Farmhouse.
Blades Field Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to East
- WRENN ID
- outer-copper-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Blades Field Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to East, A 67, Boldron
- OS grid reference
- NZ 023 151
- Coordinates
- 54.53163, -1.9646
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Blades Field Farmhouse, dated 1761 for C.L. Whitell Esq., is a house made of squared stone with cut dressings, accompanied by an attached outbuilding constructed of coursed rubble. The roofs are covered with graduated stone slates. The farmhouse is two storeys high and has three symmetrical bays. It features a central renewed door and 4-pane sash windows, some of which are from the late 19th century and lack intermediate glazing bars, all set in raised stone surrounds. The gables are coped and supported by moulded kneelers, with a stepped and corniced stack on the right end and a rebuilt stack on the left. The left side of the house shows a blocked ground-floor window.
The lower outbuilding, set back to the right, has a stone external stair leading to a boarded door on its right side. The rear elevation includes a pent porch with a boarded door in a stone surround on the right side and a 6-pane fixed window on the left. To the left, there is a 16-pane Yorkshire sash window, while the other windows are 4-pane sashes, all in irregular stone surrounds. The rear of the outbuilding features an old stone trough in a recess with a projecting capstone. The attached outbuilding to the west of the house has been altered and is not of special interest.
Local climate
Blades Field Farmhouse and Attached Outbuilding to East sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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