Beckley Farmhouse and Farmbuildings Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Farmhouse, farm buildings. 4 related planning applications.
Beckley Farmhouse and Farmbuildings Attached
- WRENN ID
- bitter-bronze-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse, farm buildings
- Address
- Beckley Farmhouse and Farmbuildings Attached, Stanley, DH9 9QN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 195 562
- Coordinates
- 54.90029, -1.69678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beckley Farmhouse and the attached farm buildings date from the early 18th century. They are constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and large quoins, topped with a roof made of Welsh slate and French tiles, featuring stone gable copings. The layout is U-shaped, with a two-storey, five-window house and a lower two-storey, six-bay farm building attached on the left. Additional ranges extend behind the house, forming three sides around a yard, with the house projecting forward.
The farmhouse has a central door that has been renewed, set in a plain stone surround. Above this door are late 19th-century sash windows with similar stone surrounds, with paired windows in the outer bays, the left ones being smaller. There are chimneys at both ends of the house. The farm building on the left features plain stone surrounds for two Dutch doors, an inserted bottom-hinged three-light window on the left, and partly-glazed loft openings on the right. There is also an empty square opening and a pitching hole above the second door. At the rear of this range, there is a boarded door in a slightly-chamfered plain stone surround, along with two loft openings that have flat stone lintels and sills. Other ranges include a boarded door in a stone surround and a boarded vehicle door facing the yard.
Local climate
Beckley Farmhouse and Farmbuildings Attached receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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