The Rookhope Inn is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Inn.

The Rookhope Inn

WRENN ID
weathered-passage-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Inn
Address
The Rookhope Inn, Bolt's Burn, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 938 428
Coordinates
54.78069, -2.09726
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Rookhope Inn is an inn that dates from the late 18th century to the early 19th century. It features painted render with painted ashlar dressings, and its roofs are covered with Welsh slate and stone flags, topped with ashlar chimneys. The building is two storeys high and has a total of four bays, with the left bay being taller than the others.

There is a boarded door with an overlight located in a pent porch at the right of the first bay. The left side has late 19th-century sash windows that are set beneath flat stone lintels and have projecting stone sills. The central part of the building has a blank central bay, which may have been a former entrance. The other three bays feature ground-floor canted bay windows, with 16-pane sashes above, also topped with flat stone lintels. The roof is steeply pitched over the four right bays and there are four ridge chimneys.

Local climate

The Rookhope Inn 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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