Outbuilding West of Board Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 January 1987. Outbuilding.
Outbuilding West of Board Cottage
- WRENN ID
- sunken-chapel-owl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 January 1987
- Type
- Outbuilding
- Address
- Outbuilding West of Board Cottage, Iveston Lane
- OS grid reference
- NZ 136 503
- Coordinates
- 54.84814, -1.78851
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The outbuilding west of Board Cottage is a mid-19th century structure that now serves as a byre and loft. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with a brick chimney. The building is two storeys high and consists of three bays. The central entrance is a boarded Dutch door, flanked by wide stable windows that have thin wooden lintels and projecting sills. On the first floor, there is a central boarded loft door, with a window to the right, both of which have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The roof includes a chimney at the right end. This outbuilding is included for its group value.
Local climate
Outbuilding West of Board Cottage receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 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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