Outbuildings North of Frosterley House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. A C19 Byre, henhouse, stables, coachhouse.

Outbuildings North of Frosterley House

WRENN ID
waiting-ledge-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Byre, henhouse, stables, coachhouse
Address
Outbuildings North of Frosterley House, Front Street, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NZ 027 370
Coordinates
54.72821, -1.95836
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The outbuildings north of Frosterley House consist of a byre, henhouse, stables, and a coachhouse, which is now used as a garage. They were built around 1840 and are constructed from squared sandstone rubble with quoins, featuring ashlar and brick dressings, and a stone-flagged roof. The buildings are arranged in an L-plan.

The two-storey, three-bay stable has a one-storey pent coachhouse at the right end and a two-storey, one-bay byre that projects forward on the left. There is a bank entry to the first-floor henhouse located at the rear of the byre. The former stable has a central boarded door set in a square-headed stone surround, with flat stone lintels above a hit-and-miss opening to the left and a fixed light to the right. A long row of pigeon holes is situated at the eaves, divided by brick verticals.

On the right side, there are boarded carriage doors beneath a low segmental arch with voussoirs. The left wing features a front gable with two small fixed lights on the first floor and a wide fixed light with glazing bars above it, along with a boarded door on the inner return. The forecourt is cobbled with river-worn stones.

Local climate

Outbuildings North of Frosterley House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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