Deanery Farmhouse and Cottage with Attached Barn is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 April 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Deanery Farmhouse and Cottage with Attached Barn
- WRENN ID
- inner-chimney-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 April 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Deanery Farmhouse and Cottage with Attached Barn, DH7 0LJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 167 474
- Coordinates
- 54.82163, -1.74109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Deanery Farmhouse and Cottage with Attached Barn is a house with farm storage dating from the 18th century, with a barn added in the early 19th century. Part of the barn and storage were converted to domestic use in the late 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of roughly-coursed rubble with irregular quoins, while the barn features square quoins. The farmhouse has a stone-flagged roof, the barn has a roof of French tiles, and the rear outshuts are covered with corrugated asbestos. There are brick and stone stacks.
The house is two storeys high with two wide bays. It has a boarded door on the left and a 20th-century door on the right. The left side features late 19th-century sash windows in box frames, while the right side has early 20th-century cross casements and a small 19th-century casement on the far right of the first floor. All windows have stone sills and lintels, although the lintels of the cross casements have been renewed. The gutter and flat stone eaves course lead to a graduated stone-flagged roof with a top course of alternating 'jack tiles' forming the ridge. A central stack with a cornice has three hexagonal pots.
The lower two-storey barn extension has an irregular three-bay layout, with two doors set in alternating jambs, three slit openings, two boarded openings, and one slatted opening. The left side has cross casements on both floors, indicating the domestic part of the barn. There is a rear outshut along the domestic sections.
Inside, the building features tie-and-collar-beam roof trusses with principals crossed at the apex, creating a seating area for a stout ridge piece that supports the jack tiles.
Local climate
Deanery Farmhouse and Cottage with Attached Barn receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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