Park Head Farm Cattle Shelter in Auckland Park is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1986. Cattle shelter.

Park Head Farm Cattle Shelter in Auckland Park

WRENN ID
endless-stair-moth
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 May 1986
Type
Cattle shelter
Address
Park Head Farm Cattle Shelter in Auckland Park, A 688
OS grid reference
NZ 229 308
Coordinates
54.67219, -1.64559
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Park Head Farm cattle shelter in Auckland Park is a late 18th-century structure built from coursed stone with ashlar quoins and a Welsh slate roof featuring grey ridge tiles. The shelter is a single storey and consists of three bays. It has three Tudor-arched openings, which have irregular block jambs and voussoirs with small keystones. The third arch contains a ledged boarded door, while the other two arches are empty. The roof is hipped, and the returns have small square vent openings with flat stone lintels. Inside, there is a bracket-shaped painted wood manger in the north-west corner, and four niches, likely for lamps, flanking the doorways. The shelter is prominently positioned, offering a view south over Auckland Castle Park towards the Bishop Auckland-Durham road.

Local climate

Park Head Farm Cattle Shelter in Auckland Park receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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