High Houghall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Farmhouse.
High Houghall Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- woven-transept-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High Houghall Farmhouse, Shincliffe Road, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 278 396
- Coordinates
- 54.75064, -1.56842
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Houghall Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 17th century, with some alterations. It is constructed from roughly-squared and coursed large rubble sandstone, featuring larger quoins. The roof has been renewed with Welsh slate and includes brick and stone chimneys. The building consists of two sections, with a cottage on the right side.
The farmhouse has one storey and an attic, with two wide bays, while the cottage has one storey and one bay. The house features wood lintels above a central doorway and flanking three-light windows, along with square-headed attic windows. There are end chimneys, with the right one being a massive stone chimney raised in brick. The cottage has a wood-lintelled door on the left and a square window on the right, along with a right end chimney.
Inside, the right room of the farmhouse contains a wide Tudor-arched fireplace with roll moulding. However, doors and windows have been removed, and the building was empty and derelict at the time of the survey.
Local climate
High Houghall Farmhouse 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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