Peathill Brow is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Peathill Brow

WRENN ID
fading-clay-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Peathill Brow, Stanhope, DL13 1PG
OS grid reference
NY 909 386
Coordinates
54.74289, -2.14285
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Peathill Brow is a house dating from the early to mid 18th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with a boulder plinth and ashlar dressings, topped with a roof of stone flags and stone gable coping. The building has two storeys and features one wide bay along with a later porch on the right. The porch contains a boarded door with an overlight. There is a small high window on the left side of the building.

On the ground floor, there is a two-light casement window, and above it, an 18-pane sash window, both with flat stone lintels and sills. The upper window has a wide through-stone over its lintel. The left gable coping rests on rounded, up-tilted kneelers, and the left end chimney is square with a thin string course. The left return gable features two windows on each floor, with those on the left positioned near the corner, and one window in the gable peak. There are many irregularly spaced through-stones and twelve prominent corbels below the chimney in the wide gable, which is lower on the left side.

An attached outbuilding on the lower right is empty and in a dilapidated state at the time of the survey. Peathill Brow is a prominent feature in the landscape.

Local climate

Peathill Brow sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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