Barn and Byre to East of Ashes Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Barn and byre.
Barn and Byre to East of Ashes Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- errant-flagstone-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Barn and byre
- Address
- Barn and Byre to East of Ashes Farmhouse, Wear Bank, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 068 365
- Coordinates
- 54.72396, -1.89566
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building is a barn and byre located to the east of Ashes Farmhouse, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with stone dressings and features a roof covered with 20th-century tiles. The structure is L-shaped and consists of two storeys. The left side includes a barn and loft with a boarded door and a boarded pitching door above it. The right side has a two-bay projecting byre, which also features similar doors, all with stone lintels. The front gable end of the byre has a horizontal opening with a stone-filled recess on the right side designed to accommodate a sliding shutter, and there are two stone shelves in the gable peak. Additionally, there are slit vents present.
Local climate
Barn and Byre to East of Ashes Farmhouse receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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