Outbuilding South of Ramshaw House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Outbuilding.

Outbuilding South of Ramshaw House

WRENN ID
worn-chapel-lark
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Outbuilding
Address
Outbuilding South of Ramshaw House, Hunstanworth
OS grid reference
NY 949 471
Coordinates
54.81938, -2.07997
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an outbuilding located south of Ramshaw House, dating from around 1840. It features coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has both stone-flagged and felt-covered roofs. The building is in an L-plan layout, with one storey, two bays, and a projecting right wing. There are boarded doors in the two bays beneath thin stone lintels, with the second door having a ventilation panel. The cart shed has double boarded vehicle doors. The left side has a low-pitched, stone-flagged roof, while the right side has a monopitch roof. The right return includes two small square fixed lights with flush lintels and sills. This outbuilding is included for its group value with Ramshaw House.

Local climate

Outbuilding South of Ramshaw House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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