Dairy Bridge Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Cottage.

Dairy Bridge Cottage

WRENN ID
pitched-grate-crimson
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
Cottage
Address
Dairy Bridge Cottage, Rokeby
OS grid reference
NZ 084 143
Coordinates
54.52462, -1.87078
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Dairy Bridge Cottage is a cottage, likely built in the early 19th century. It features squared rough-faced stone with cut dressings and a graduated Lakeland slate roof. The north elevation has one storey above a basement and consists of three bays. There are steps leading up to a central part-glazed six-panel door, with renewed nine-pane sash windows in the end bays. The basement includes a 20th-century glazed door on the left, a boarded door on the far right, and two six-pane casements in between. The hipped roof has a stepped-and-banded ridge stack.

The left side of the cottage displays a canted bay with a central French window beneath a round arch, which opens onto an iron balcony built out over a cliff. There are flanking boarded windows and a moulded block cornice, with twelve-pane casements located below the balcony. The right side shows a blocked tripartite window beneath a pedimented hood supported by block corbels. The rear elevation features a centrally blocked door under a pent slated hood on block corbels, with two renewed sash windows on each side.

While the cottage appears to be early 19th century, a 'tea room' at this location is mentioned in Arthur Young's book, "A Six Months Tour through the North of England," published in 1770.

Local climate

Dairy Bridge Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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