Westernhopeburn Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. Farm cottage.
Westernhopeburn Cottage
- WRENN ID
- blind-ledge-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- Farm cottage
- Address
- Westernhopeburn Cottage, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 934 378
- Coordinates
- 54.73546, -2.10363
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westernhopeburn Cottage is a farm cottage, byre, and loft dating from the 17th century and later. It is constructed from roughly-coursed and squared limestone rubble, with some quoins, and features a stone-flagged roof. The building has two storeys and six bays, with the left two bays added later.
The left side has a ground-floor boarded door with a stone surround and a similar door on the first floor. There is a thin stone lintel above an inserted door on the right side of the ground floor. The central two bays have flat stone lintels above a central boarded door and a boarded pitching door above, as well as a partly-glazed window to the right on the ground floor. The house portion, located in the two lower right bays, includes a three-light stone-mullioned window on the ground floor and two irregularly-placed first-floor windows, one being a two-light casement and the other a two-light horizontal sliding sash. A square chimney is located at the right end, and the right return gable features a door in a plain stone surround. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Westernhopeburn Cottage 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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