Westernhopeburn West Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuilding is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. Farmhouse.

Westernhopeburn West Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuilding

WRENN ID
high-mortar-fern
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
31 January 1967
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NY 935 378
Coordinates
54.73554, -2.10241
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Westernhopeburn West Farmhouse is a 17th-century farmhouse with adjoining outbuildings, now used as a garage, located in Eastgate. The building is dated 1606 on a lintel and features grey rubble with ashlar dressings and a stone-flagged roof with stone gable coping. It is designed in an L-plan and consists of two low storeys. The farmhouse has six bays, while the byre has one bay.

To the right of the fourth bay, there is a 20th-century door set in a chamfered surround with broach stops, and the lintel is inscribed with "C E 1606." The windows are three-light stone-mullioned types, with the ground floor window at the right end being a later insertion. These windows have glazing bars, chamfered surrounds, and label moulds, while there is a single blocked light on the first floor in the right end bay.

The byre, now a garage, features a wide concrete lintel above the vehicle doors, a first-floor boarded door at the right in a plain stone surround, and two vent slits on the left. The roof has left gable coping on moulded kneelers and three square ridge chimneys on the house. The left return includes a rear wing that is two storeys high and has three bays, with three ground-floor windows that have plain stone surrounds, along with a first-floor boarded loft door.

Local climate

Westernhopeburn West Farmhouse and Adjoining Outbuilding 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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