Barns of Houghall Farm is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Barn.
Barns of Houghall Farm
- WRENN ID
- sunken-paling-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- Barns of Houghall Farm, Shincliffe Road, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 279 402
- Coordinates
- 54.7568, -1.56739
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barns of Houghall Farm are likely of medieval origin and were part of the lands of Durham Priory. They are constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and some quoins, topped with an asbestos tile roof. The building is arranged in an L-plan and is a single storey.
On the left side, there is a four-bay section that features high opposing doors set under stone lintels, with buttresses on the rear wall and an additional buttress on the front wall to the left. To the left, there is a boarded door with a stone sill and a wooden lintel, along with a blocked opening at the left end that has a massive stone sill.
The right section of the barn has wooden lintels above a boarded door and an empty opening, with quoins on the left side. The right return includes wooden lintels over various openings and opposing doors, one of which has been replaced with a sliding door. The last bay features two small triangular ventilation holes, one of which is blocked. There is also a blocked three-light stone-mullioned window to the left of the door and another on the rear to the left of the door.
Additionally, there is a small rendered extension on the right side.
Local climate
Barns of Houghall Farm receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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