Labarnum Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Dwelling. 2 related planning applications.

Labarnum Cottage

WRENN ID
stubborn-stone-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Dwelling
Address
Labarnum Cottage, 39, Low Green, Gainford, DL2 3DS
OS grid reference
NZ 169 167
Coordinates
54.54606, -1.7392
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Laburnum Cottage is a Grade II listed building originally constructed as two houses, which were converted into one dwelling in the late 20th century. The building dates from the late 18th century to early 19th century and features roughcast and painted masonry, a renewed pantiled roof, and rebuilt brick stacks.

The cottage is two stories high with a five-bay front. It has a four-panel door with a patterned four-pane overlight in a raised and moulded surround located in the second bay from the left, and an identical door and surround in the fourth bay from the left. The windows are 12-pane sashes set in raised surrounds with projecting sills. The low-pitched roof has slightly projecting eaves and coped gables with shaped kneelers, along with a left gable and ridge stacks, and a roughcast stack on the right gable.

At the rear, there is a two-story, two-bay addition that features similar window styles.

Local climate

Labarnum Cottage receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% 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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