8 is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Cottage.
8
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-string-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- 8, Wackerfield
- OS grid reference
- NZ 153 225
- Coordinates
- 54.59761, -1.76355
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a cottage, probably built in the late 18th century. It is constructed from limewashed rubble and has a pantiled roof. The cottage is one storey high and features two windows. There is a central boarded door flanked by two-light horizontal sliding sash windows, all set beneath thin stone lintels. Notably, there is no chimney.
Inside, the kitchen has a plain stone surround for the range located against the left gable. To the left of the range, there is a brick and stone water-pot holder, while the central fire has front bars. On the right side, there is a small square cast iron oven that features the crest of Lord Barnard in low relief. The area above the fire and oven is finished with stone and brick, and there is a stone lintel over the water pot.
This cottage is included for its group value.
Local climate
8 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings