Tutta Beck Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. House, cottages.
Tutta Beck Cottages
- WRENN ID
- sombre-slate-meadow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- House, cottages
- Address
- Tutta Beck Cottages, A66, Rokeby
- OS grid reference
- NZ 065 134
- Coordinates
- 54.51642, -1.89966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Tutta Beck Cottages is a house and two cottages located in Rokeby, dating from the 18th and early 19th centuries. The east cottage is built of rubble, while the west cottage features coursed rubble with a rendered left return. The house is constructed from squared stone with tooled-and-margined quoins, dressings, and a porch. All three buildings have stone slate roofs, with brick stacks on the cottages.
The structure is two storeys high and consists of two, one, and three bays. The oldest part is the cottage in the centre, which has a boarded door under a timber lintel and a tiny window directly above it. To the left, there is a 6-pane casement window in a stone surround, and on the first floor, a 16-pane Yorkshire sash window with a timber lintel, along with an old brick stack to the left. The left cottage features a central boarded door with a 2-pane overlight and 12-pane sash windows with slightly projecting sills, all openings having tooled lintels and engineering brick end stacks.
The house on the right has three symmetrical bays, with a boarded door and a 4-pane overlight inside a shallow porch, and 12-pane sash windows. The end stacks have chamfered caps.
On the rear elevation, the outshut to the cottages includes a boarded door and a 4-pane Yorkshire sash under a heavy timber lintel, while the house has 9-pane short sashes in stone surrounds. A 20th-century half-glazed porch at the rear of the house is not considered of special interest.
Local climate
Tutta Beck Cottages receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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