Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. House.
Castle Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- bitter-spandrel-cobweb
- 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
- Address
- Castle Farmhouse, B 6277, Egglestone Abbey
- OS grid reference
- NZ 053 144
- Coordinates
- 54.52548, -1.91849
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse is a house built in the late 18th century. The south front is made of squared stone, while the other sides are constructed from squared rubble. It features tooled-and-margined quoins and dressings, topped with a graduated stone slate roof. The building has an H-plan layout, consisting of a two-storey north/south block with single-storey wings on either side, and a small extension to the west.
On the south elevation, there is a two-storey central bay flanked by single-storey bays. The center includes a plinth, a first-floor band that continues as an eaves cornice on the side parts, a first-floor sill band, and a stepped eaves cornice. The windows are 4-pane sash types with flat-arched lintels and slightly projecting sills. The hipped roof has several small lateral stacks on each return. The right return features a 4-panel door, a 6-pane fixed stair window, and an eaves cornice. The rear has 12-pane sash windows, and the small pent extension on the right wing has two 4-pane Yorkshire sashes on its end.
There is an asbestos-roofed outbuilding attached to the south-west wing, which is not of interest.
Local climate
Castle Farmhouse 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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