Milne Farmhouse and Barn, with Wall and Implement Shed Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.

Milne Farmhouse and Barn, with Wall and Implement Shed Attached

WRENN ID
gilded-entrance-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Milne Farmhouse and Barn, with Wall and Implement Shed Attached, Bidhopley, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NZ 023 360
Coordinates
54.71945, -1.96461
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Milne Farmhouse and Barn is a 17th-century farmhouse and hind's cottage that have been combined into one house, with an attached barn and a wall and implement shed in front. The remaining buildings date from the 18th century. The structure is built of sandstone rubble, with the house being thinly rendered and featuring an irregular plinth. The roofs are covered with 20th-century tiles and stone slates.

The farmhouse is two stories high with five bays, while the barn is one story and has one bay. There is also a one-story wall and shed that projects to the right. The door in the third bay has a chamfered square-headed stone surround, and there is a chamfered flat-Tudor-arched surround under a relieving arch for the door to the right of the fourth bay. A similar relieving arch is found over a window to the right of this door. The windows vary in size, with most being late 19th-century sashes that have wood or stone lintels and some stone surrounds. There is a blocked two-light stone-mullioned window in the second bay on the first floor. The low second floor, partly in the roof space, features three small square windows at the eaves, which have stone surrounds with shallow roll mouldings. The building has three chimneys, with the end chimneys on massive external stacks, and stone gable copings. The right barn, which is partly obscured by later buildings, has a small square opening on the first floor and a stone slated roof.

The wall projecting from the right side of the house contains a square-headed doorway and connects to a storage shed that features large quoins, pigeon holes, and shelves in the front gable, along with a stone-slated roof.

Inside, the beams in the left ground-floor room have concave-stopped chamfers. The right ground-floor room has a chamfered segmental chimney arch over a 19th-century kitchen range made by Ord & Maddison, Makers Darlington.

Local climate

Milne Farmhouse and Barn, with Wall and Implement Shed Attached sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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