Corner House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
Corner House
- WRENN ID
- stark-gateway-soot
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Corner House, 1 2, High Street, Shincliffe, DH1 2NH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 289 406
- Coordinates
- 54.76015, -1.55187
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Corner House is an early to mid-18th century farmhouse, later divided into two private dwellings. It was altered in the early 19th century. The ground floor is of rendered rubble, with a narrow hand-made brick layer above, in an irregular English garden wall bond. The roof is covered in Welsh slate, with 19th-century brick chimney stacks. The building is in an L-shape, comprising a main block with a wing set at right angles to the rear on the right side.
The main block is three storeys high and has three bays, with a plinth and flush rendered quoins. The central 4-panel door, leading to No. 1, has a fanlight within an open-pedimented doorcase. 19th-century window openings have projecting stone sills, flanked by blocked original openings. The ground floor has replaced sashes, the first floor has 16-pane sashes, and the second floor has smaller 9-pane sashes. The eaves were raised in the 19th century above a projecting brick course. The steeply pitched roof has transverse end stacks. A small, blocked diamond-shaped opening, potentially a closet window, is visible on the first floor of the right return.
The three-storey, one-bay rear wing has a 19th-century canted bay window and a replaced door (leading to No. 2) on the ground floor, with replaced sashes above and a steeply pitched roof with an end stack. There is a two-storey, four-bay outshut at the rear left of the main block.
The interior of No. 2 has an early 19th-century open-well staircase with late 19th-century balusters and handrail. A former stable, now a house (No. 3), is located at the rear of the wing and has been altered; it is not of special interest.
Local climate
Corner House receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- 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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