16, Town End is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. House.
16, Town End
- WRENN ID
- stranded-window-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- 16, Town End, Middleton in Teesdale
- OS grid reference
- NY 950 253
- Coordinates
- 54.62319, -2.07791
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 16 Town End is a house, now used as storage buildings, dating from the early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and irregular quoins, set on boulder plinths, with the eaves raised in coarser rubble. The roof is made of Welsh slate. The building has two storeys and three bays. The central boarded door features stone jambs with top blocks under a stone lintel. To the left, there is a similar lintel and flat sill above a 4-pane light, while to the right, there are stone jambs. The first floor has three wide windows with plain stone surrounds; the central window has a central mullion, and the outer windows have 4-pane lights. The right end chimney is built of thin courses of rubble with a top band. The rear of the building shows a high platform at the right leading to a first-floor porch.
Inside, the ground-floor room features a bolection-moulded chimney piece that contains a cast iron range, which was concealed at the time of the survey. The room has deep narrow beams with curved soffits that support slightly-chamfered wide joists, and the floor is stone-flagged. The first-floor room includes a fireplace with plain stone jambs and a lintel, along with a cast-iron oven. The rear porch contains stone stairs. The building was probably originally designed as a separate dwelling on each floor.
Local climate
16, Town End sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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