Biggin Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Biggin Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-rampart-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Biggin Farm Cottage, Low Moor Road, Lanchester, DH7 9RP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 185 451
- Coordinates
- 54.80068, -1.71288
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Biggin Farm Cottage is a house dating from the 17th century, with some alterations. It is built from thinly-rendered sandstone rubble, featuring quoins and a boulder plinth, topped with an asbestos-tiled roof that has rendered gable coping on the right side. The cottage has two storeys and three irregular bays. The central entrance is a flushed door set beneath a flat stone lintel. The windows are late 19th-century sashes with renewed sills and wood lintels, with those on the first floor positioned at the eaves. The left first-floor window is paired with a rendered mullion.
Inside, the cottage features massive chamfered beams and 18th-century cupboards located under a single side flight of stairs in the rear of the right room. The first-floor right room has a timber-studded screen leading to the rear passage. The roof consists of curved principals on tie beams. There is a rear addition from the 20th century, which is not of interest.
Local climate
Biggin Farm Cottage receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
- 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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