New Close Farmhouse with Stable, Byre and Lofts is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.
New Close Farmhouse with Stable, Byre and Lofts
- WRENN ID
- brooding-corridor-candle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- New Close Farmhouse with Stable, Byre and Lofts, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 906 365
- Coordinates
- 54.72393, -2.14628
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
New Close Farmhouse, along with its stable, byre, and lofts, is an early 18th century farmhouse with additional structures from the late 18th century and around 1800. The buildings are constructed from sandstone rubble that is roughly coursed and squared, featuring an irregular plinth, ashlar dressings, and quoins, all topped with stone-flagged roofs.
The farmhouse is two storeys tall and consists of seven bays in total, with the east elevation showcasing a three-bay house on the right. This section includes a central three-light stone-mullioned window, a two-light casement, and a two-light horizontal sliding sash in the first two bays, while the third bay is blank. To the left, the stable and loft have two bays and are two storeys high, featuring thin stone lintels over a boarded door and an empty window on the ground floor, along with a boarded pitching door above.
The later byre and loft on the left also have two storeys and two bays, with plain stone surrounds to the boarded door and loft door, a thin wood lintel over a boarded window on the right, and first-floor vent slits. The farmhouse has a large square chimney at the right end, while the left end building has a low-pitched roof. The right return gable features a painted stop-chamfered stone surround to a boarded Dutch door, with a large throughstone above and two courses of throughstones along with two large throughstones below the chimney. The right return gable of the adjacent higher part has a small square light in the gable peak. The rear elevation includes a one-storey extension under a catslide roof.
Local climate
New Close Farmhouse with Stable, Byre and Lofts sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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