Bonnymoor and Harthopeburn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Bonnymoor and Harthopeburn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- third-minaret-finch
- 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
- Bonnymoor and Harthopeburn Cottage, Stanhope, DL13 1QE
- OS grid reference
- NY 883 378
- Coordinates
- 54.73531, -2.18298
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
A farmhouse, dating to the 17th and 18th centuries, with adjoining byres and lofts, now divided into two houses. The building is constructed of sandstone and limestone rubble, with some quoins, a boulder plinth, and some ashlar dressings. The roof is stone-flagged. It is two storeys high and originally six bays wide. The two bays on the left have wide stone steps leading to a pair of renewed first-floor doors, set within a flat stone surround with a plinth, and a rough stone lintel above a blocked ground-floor doorway. A recessed doorway with irregular-block jambs is located to the right of the steps, with a flat, Tudor-arched head. The windows vary in style; one bay has a six-pane sash with an 8-pane overlight, set under a flat stone lintel. The three bays on the right have renewed doors to the right of the centre, and plain or late 19th century sashes with rough, flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The wide sixth bay has a boarded door to the first-floor loft. Three square stone ridge chimneys are positioned at the left end of the building, between the second and third bays, and between the fifth and sixth bays.
The interior of one house features massive beams in the left ground-floor room, one of which sits on a painted, moulded stone corbel. The rear wall of this room is approximately one metre thick. The cottage in the two bays on the left has undergone significant alterations and is considered less architecturally significant.
Local climate
Bonnymoor and Harthopeburn Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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