Field Barn, 55 Metres South East of High Birk Hat Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. A C19 Agricultural.

Field Barn, 55 Metres South East of High Birk Hat Farmhouse

WRENN ID
sharp-brass-harvest
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
Agricultural
OS grid reference
NY 933 187
Coordinates
54.56375, -2.10393
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This field barn, located 55 metres south-east of High Birk Hat Farmhouse, dates from the early to mid-19th century. It is constructed of squared rubble with dressed stone details and features a stone-flagged roof.

The barn is tall, single-storey, and has four bays with rough alternating quoins. On the left side, there is a pair of boarded doors set in a segmental-arched opening, which has tooled voussoirs and alternating jambs. To the right, there is a breather and patched masonry. The roof is low-pitched.

The gabled ends and rear of the barn have throughstones, and there is a first-floor opening on the left side of the rear. This building is included for its group value.

Local climate

Field Barn, 55 Metres South East of High Birk Hat Farmhouse 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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