Greenwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. A C18 Farmhouse.
Greenwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- cold-glass-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Greenwell Farmhouse, B6297, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 100 375
- Coordinates
- 54.73307, -1.84568
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Greenwell Farmhouse is a house, likely built in the late 17th century, with alterations from the 18th century. It features a date of 1721 and the initials T M G (for Greenwell) above the door. The building is designed in an L-plan and constructed from roughly-coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings. The roof is a renewed flagged type made of synthetic stone, complete with stone gable copings and stone chimneys. The house has two storeys and two wide bays.
To the right of the centre, there is a three-panelled door set in a raised stone surround beneath a pediment, with a coat of arms, date, and initials displayed above. The windows are three-light stone-mullioned with recessed chamfers. The gable copings are supported by widely-curved kneelers, and there are ridge chimneys at the ends and to the right of the centre. The returns of the building feature two rectangular attic windows in each gable peak.
Inside, there is a closed-string upper-flight stair with a moulded handrail supported by twist-shaped flat balusters, rising from a wide landing with a short flight from the ground floor. The upper landing has a similar balustrade. A plank-and-batten rear door is present, and a wide segmental chamfered stone fire opening is revealed in the right room on the ground floor.
Local climate
Greenwell Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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