High Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.

High Garden House

WRENN ID
third-facade-honey
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1971
Type
House
Address
High Garden House, Hunstanworth, DH8 9UG
OS grid reference
NY 955 495
Coordinates
54.84074, -2.07132
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Garden House is a pair of houses, built around 1863 by S.S. Teulon for Rev. Daniel Capper, and now combined into a single residence. The house is constructed from coursed squared sandstone rubble with ashlar and yellow brick dressings. Part of the right return is clad in shingles. The roof is covered in grey-blue and green slates laid in a diaper pattern. The building has an irregular plan.

The front elevation is one and two storeys high, with four bays. The single-storey section on the left has a double boarded door set under a 2-centred brick arch in a gabled porch. A renewed window sits in the second bay, and the projecting third bay has a 5-light window with flat stone mullions, all under a label mould. To the right, the two-storey gabled section has three diagonally-leaded iron casements under label moulds. The steeply-pitched roofs have chimneys at the front left and on the right return, along with a tall round chimney located to the left of the two-storey part.

The right return features a prominent porch with a hipped roof and rear iron French windows. A round turret, set in the angle with the porch, has a tall conical roof. Inside, some original wrought-iron door fittings remain, but most doors and fittings have been replaced.

Local climate

High Garden House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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