Cow House of Home Farm Burn Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Cow house. 1 related planning application.
Cow House of Home Farm Burn Hall
- WRENN ID
- plain-ledge-autumn
- 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
- Cow house
- Address
- Cow House of Home Farm Burn Hall, Darlington Road, City of Durham, DH1 3SS
- OS grid reference
- NZ 262 389
- Coordinates
- 54.74452, -1.59365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cow House of Home Farm Burn Hall is a cow house and bull house designed by Sir John Soane for George Smith, first used at Marlesford, Suffolk in 1783. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with graduated Lakeland slate roofs. The building features a curved plan with end and central pavilions, consisting of one storey and lofts at the ends, and a very high central storey, all linked by one-storey, three-bay ranges of stalls. A circular bull house is located behind the left range.
The central pedimented pavilion has a high, wide arch with impost bands, while the linking stall ranges contain three arches. The ground floor of the end pavilions has arched openings, with square pitching holes above that feature voussoirs and flat stone sills. The end pavilions are topped with pyramidal roofs. The bull house, which is likely part of the same design, is made of brick and has flat stone lintels and sills, curving in plan to the door and two window openings, topped with a conical roof and a stone ball finial.
Local climate
Cow House of Home Farm Burn Hall receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 5 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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