Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. A C17 Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached
- WRENN ID
- upper-copper-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached, A689, Stanhope, DL13 2JG
- OS grid reference
- NY 977 396
- Coordinates
- 54.7516, -2.03688
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Farmhouse. Dating largely from the 17th century, with later alterations, Greenhead Farmhouse is constructed of roughly-coursed and squared sandstone and limestone, with a plinth, quoins, and ashlar dressings. It has a stone-flagged roof with stone gable copings. The main farmhouse is three storeys high and consists of three bays, while a one-storey, two-bay extension is attached to the right. A renewed door is located to the left of the one-storey section, set within a moulded, flat Tudor-arched surround. The original section has five-light, single-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, each under a drip mould, with inserted fixed lights. The left window has vertical iron bars in two lights. A central first-floor three-light window is flanked by four-light windows, and there are two second-floor two-light windows, all in a similar style. Stone-bracketed eaves and corniced ashlar end chimneys, which have a further set-back on the gable copings resting on ogee-moulded kneelers, complete the exterior. The right extension features a twelve-pane sash window under a flat stone lintel and a three-pane overlight, along with a blocked narrow door, a small opening, and a ridge chimney. The rear elevation incorporates a stair wing with two two-light windows, the lower of which is blocked, and a flat Tudor-arched surround to a door opposite the main entrance.
Inside, flat Tudor-arched stone doorways lead to the main room, the stair wing, and from the stair wing to the first floor. Chimney pieces of a similar shape are present on both floors, with that on the second floor to the left featuring a stepped centre moulding. One upper fireplace has a smaller, simpler flat Tudor-arched chimney piece inserted, containing a partly removed Regency grate. A pin-hung, ledged and boarded, studded door leads to the main room. Large, reverse ogee-stopped chamfered beams are also present. The close-string staircase has stone lower steps, with a round-topped moulded handrail, featuring three simple grooves for grip on wide stick balusters, and square newels. During a restoration period, a tenoned foot of a central upper cruck was revealed between the first and second floors, although no other parts of the upper crucks were visible, and the roof had been renewed.
Local climate
Greenhead Farmhouse and Outbuilding Attached receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% 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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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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