Whitestones Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. A C18 House. 1 related planning application.
Whitestones Cottage
- WRENN ID
- swift-quartz-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitestones Cottage, Stanhope, DL13 1PS
- OS grid reference
- NY 867 393
- Coordinates
- 54.74871, -2.20661
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitestones Cottage is an 18th-century house, originally combined with a cowhouse. It is constructed from thinly-rendered sandstone rubble with millstone grit quoins, and has a stone-flagged roof. The front elevation, facing the road, is one storey with two bays. The left bay is blank, while the right bay features a small larder window with a hit-and-miss vent consisting of two panes, and a flat stone lintel above. The left return side has low rubble walls topped with flat coping stones, flanking four stone steps leading to a boarded door set under a rough stone lintel. A corbelled, semicircular oven projection centrally, with flat stone coping, has a row of throughstones directly above. The rear elevation has rough stone lintels over a partly-glazed ground-floor cowhouse door, and two 19th-century sash windows above. A chimney is located at the left end of the roof.
Local climate
Whitestones Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% 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 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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