Mere Beck Farmhouse, Byre and Pigsty is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse, byre, pigsty. 1 related planning application.
Mere Beck Farmhouse, Byre and Pigsty
- WRENN ID
- lunar-zinc-mallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, byre, pigsty
- Address
- Mere Beck Farmhouse, Byre and Pigsty, Cotherstone
- OS grid reference
- NY 948 181
- Coordinates
- 54.55853, -2.08078
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mere Beck Farmhouse, byre, and pigsty are located in Cotherstone, Baldersdale. The farmhouse is dated 1742 on the door lintel, while the farm buildings date from the early to mid-19th century. The structures are built from squared rubble, with the farmhouse and pigsty featuring stone-flagged roofs, and the byre having a blue slate roof along with stone chimney stacks. The farmhouse, which has a rear outshut, is attached to the byre and pigsty on the right.
The farmhouse is a two-storey, irregular three-bay building with a tall plinth and flush quoins. It has a central replaced partly-glazed door set in a flush surround with thin alternating jambs, and the lintel is inscribed with "17 IP 42." Above the door is a blank bay, with flanking 16-pane sash windows that have flush sills and lintels. The roof features corniced end stacks with water tables.
The byre is a set-back two-storey, narrow two-bay structure with a loft, featuring a boarded door and a square window opening to the left, along with a 20th-century eight-pane fixed light above. The single-storey, two-bay pigsty attached to the right has two boarded doors and a feeding chute to the right, with a monopitch roof over the lower rear wall.
At the rear of the right return of the byre, there is an external stone stairway leading to a first-floor boarded door. There are also derelict, detached buildings to the left of the farmhouse, which are not of special interest.
Local climate
Mere Beck Farmhouse, Byre and Pigsty sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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 — 1 application
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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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