Garage North of the Rookhope Inn is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Garage.
Garage North of the Rookhope Inn
- WRENN ID
- solitary-buttress-laurel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Garage
- Address
- Garage North of the Rookhope Inn, Bolt's Burn, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 938 428
- Coordinates
- 54.78066, -2.09763
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a coachhouse, now used as a garage, dating from the first half of the 19th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and has a Welsh slate roof. The structure is one storey high with one wide bay and features a blank front. The left return gable has a wooden lintel above boarded vehicle doors, and the gable peak includes a projecting stone triangle with pigeon holes and shelves. This building is included for its group value with the nearby Rookhope Inn.
Local climate
Garage North of the Rookhope Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2003
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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