The Grange is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. A C17 Farmhouse.
The Grange
- WRENN ID
- ragged-doorway-thistle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- The Grange, Cleatlam Back Lane
- OS grid reference
- NZ 117 186
- Coordinates
- 54.56298, -1.81991
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grange is a farmhouse dated 1697, with 19th-century additions and alterations. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with roughly-dressed quoins and features a pantiled roof that has a double row of sandstone flags at the eaves, along with brick and stone chimney stacks. The building is two stories high and has a three-bay front. The central entrance has a 20th-century door set in an ovolo-chamfered surround, with a lintel that displays the initials EAI and the date 1697. The windows have chamfered surrounds, including an 18-pane horizontal sliding sash and a small 4-pane fire window to the left of the door, and a renewed 6-pane sash to the right. On the first floor, there is a central late 20th-century casement flanked by 18-pane horizontal sliding sashes.
At the rear, there is a gabled two-story single-bay wing that has an attached 19th-century outshut. The steeply-pitched roof features coped gables and a shaped kneeler on the left side, with a rebuilt left end brick chimney and a corniced right end stone chimney. There are attached farm buildings to the right and detached farm buildings to the rear, which are not of special interest.
Local climate
The Grange receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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