Barn and Attached Farmbuildings to North of West Middleton Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1987. Agricultural.
Barn and Attached Farmbuildings to North of West Middleton Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- guardian-remnant-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1987
- Type
- Agricultural
- Address
- Barn and Attached Farmbuildings to North of West Middleton Farmhouse, Wycliffe with Thorpe
- OS grid reference
- NZ 129 127
- Coordinates
- 54.51013, -1.80139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The barn and attached farm buildings located to the north of West Middleton Farmhouse date from the late 17th century or early 18th century for the barn, while the farm buildings are from the early 19th century. The structures are built of coursed rubble with roughly-shaped quoins, and the 19th-century parts feature tooled quoins and dressings. The roofs are covered with graduated stone slates, except for the wheelhouse, which has modern asbestos sheets.
The barn has lower ranges to the east that enclose a foldyard, and a wheelhouse is situated to the west. The elevations facing the foldyard show that the barn has a stable door in a blocked former cart entrance with a timber lintel, a small barred window to the right, and a slatted window above to the left. The gables are coped. The south range consists of a three-bay shelter shed with a partially blocked segmental arcade. The north range is divided into two sections: the left part features two stable doors and one boarded door, all with timber lintels, while the right part, set back behind a modern shed, displays two segmental arches with a boarded door to the right.
The end walls of the barn have boarded windows in the gables and a stable door at the south end. The wheelhouse includes a cart entrance under a timber lintel on the south side.
Inside, the barn has a storeyed south end, with first-floor joists supported by a transverse stop-chamfered beam. The upper room contains a small fireplace. The main section of the barn features a four-bay roof supported by raised cruck trusses, with the central and southern trusses having blades that rise only to the collar. There are two levels of purlins supported by extended tie and collar, and no ridge piece is present.
Local climate
Barn and Attached Farmbuildings to North of West Middleton Farmhouse receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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