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

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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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