Hunderthwaite Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse, farm buildings.
Hunderthwaite Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings
- WRENN ID
- twisted-tin-vetch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse, farm buildings
- OS grid reference
- NY 986 210
- Coordinates
- 54.5844, -2.02294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hunderthwaite Farmhouse and attached farm buildings date back to 1730, as noted on the door lintel, and were built by William Dent. The farmhouse and farm buildings underwent alterations in the mid to late 19th century. The structure is made of dressed and rubble sandstone, with the farmhouse originally having a heather thatched roof, now replaced with Welsh slate and stone chimneys. The farm buildings feature stone-flagged roofs. The farmhouse has an altered cross-passage and a linear plan with attached flanking farm buildings.
The two-storey farmhouse has a wide, two-bay garden front with replaced casements set in projecting, nearly-square surrounds. To the left is a replaced door with the lintel inscribed "17 WD 30." The roof is steeply pitched, and the external gable chimneys have stacks with top ledges.
The two-storey farm buildings have flush quoins and feature scattered boarded and Dutch doors, along with first-floor openings in projecting tooled surrounds. The long left range includes an external stone stairway near the farmhouse end, while the shorter right range has scattered breathers. Both ranges have low-pitched roofs with coped gables.
There are several single-storey rear outshuts with stone and slate lean-to roofs that have replaced fenestration. The right outshut includes a tall external chimney.
Although the interior was not inspected, it is reported to retain original features such as panelled doors and upper crucks.
Local climate
Hunderthwaite Farmhouse and Attached Farmbuildings sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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