The Thatch and Smithy Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. House, cottage. 4 related planning applications.
The Thatch and Smithy Cottage
- WRENN ID
- stark-copper-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- House, cottage
- Address
- The Thatch and Smithy Cottage, Lartington Lane, DL12 9BP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 019 177
- Coordinates
- 54.55509, -1.97119
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Thatch and Smithy Cottage, originally shown on Ordnance Survey maps as the Post Office, is an early 18th-century house with an attached cottage. The house was altered in the late 19th century, while the cottage itself dates to the 19th century. The house is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble, with a graduated green slate roof and stone chimney stacks. The cottage has a stone-flagged roof and a brick chimney stack.
The house comprises the three left bays and the attached cottage occupies the right bay of the original house and the cottage to the right. The house has two storeys and four bays, with alternating quoins. A partly-glazed four-panel door is set in a flush surround in the second bay, and a similar door is located at the junction to the right. The windows, altered in the late 19th century, now contain four-pane sashes. A first-floor window between bays three and four has been blocked. The eaves are raised and the roof is steeply-pitched with slightly-swept eaves. The end and ridge stacks have been rebuilt and feature top bands.
The attached, lower, two-storey, one-bay cottage has replaced four-pane sashes, a low-pitched roof, and a right-end stack.
Two linked outshuts at the rear of the house incorporate replaced windows and low-pitched pent roofs.
Local climate
The Thatch and Smithy Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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 — 2 transactions since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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