Ramshaw House and Attached Outbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House. 2 related planning applications.

Ramshaw House and Attached Outbuildings

WRENN ID
swift-kitchen-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Ramshaw House and Attached Outbuildings, Hunstanworth, DH8 9UU
OS grid reference
NY 949 472
Coordinates
54.81964, -2.07981
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Ramshaw House and attached outbuildings is a former mine manager's house, cottage, and stable, now divided into two houses, dating from around 1840. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and quoins, with some sections made of millstone grit. It features a Welsh slate roof, and the main chimneys are finished in incised stucco.

The house, which is two storeys high and has three bays, is located on the right. It has a six-panel door with a patterned overlight set in a panelled stone surround beneath a cornice. The windows are 16-pane sashes with fine glazing bars, flat stone lintels, and projecting stone sills, and the house displays chamfered quoins. The roof is hipped on the right side and has wide eaves, bargeboards, and two ridge chimneys.

To the left are the cottage and stable, which are two lower storeys and consist of six bays in total. The stable has a central boarded door beneath a flat stone lintel, with a blocked door in the right bay and pigeon holes above with stone shelves. The left side features millstone grit quoins. The house has a renewed central door and 20th-century windows in the outer bays, along with a central banded ridge chimney.

Local climate

Ramshaw House and Attached Outbuildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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