Granary and Meal House to North of East Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1985. Granary, meal house.
Granary and Meal House to North of East Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- lapsed-foundation-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1985
- Type
- Granary, meal house
- Address
- Granary and Meal House to North of East Farmhouse, Murton
- OS grid reference
- NZ 386 471
- Coordinates
- 54.81737, -1.40071
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The granary and meal house, located to the north of East Farmhouse in East Murton, is likely the original farmhouse that was later repurposed. It dates from the late 17th century, with significant alterations made in the 18th or 19th century. The structure is built of limewashed rubble and features pantiled roofs. It has a narrow rectangular plan and is a single storey high.
To the right is a tall two-bay granary, while the lower two-bay meal house is to the left. Each building has a single doorway, which is flanked by slatted windows, and all openings are topped with oak lintels. Inside, on the cross-wall separating the granary from the meal house, there is a blocked fireplace with a late 17th-century Tudor-arched head set in a rectangular moulded frame, along with a recess for a spice cupboard to the left. The rear side of this cross-wall in the meal house shows the remains of two corbels that once supported the original chimney stack. Additionally, the rear of the granary features an external stone staircase that leads to the loft. The roof timbers of both buildings were renewed in the 19th century.
Local climate
Granary and Meal House to North of East Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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