Low Dryburn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1970. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Low Dryburn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-ashlar-mist
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1970
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Low Dryburn Farmhouse, North End, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 265 434
- Coordinates
- 54.78482, -1.58939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Low Dryburn Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has been altered and is now used as a house. It is constructed of rendered rubble sandstone and rubble, with a pantiled roof on the extensions and a main roof covered in French tiles, along with brick chimneys. The building is two storeys high and features one bay, with one-storey, one-bay extensions at each end and a later one-storey front extension. There is a renewed door to the left of the central bays, and the right extension projects outward. The windows are from the late 19th century and have been renewed. The roofs are steeply pitched.
Inside, there is an enclosed dog-leg stair with a closed string, barley-sugar twist balusters, and a rounded handrail with a side groove. The central roof structure includes coupled principals and through purlins, with re-used crucks found in the left extension. The ground floor has ceiling beams, while the first floor features old planks. There are several small rear extensions that are not of particular interest.
Local climate
Low Dryburn 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- 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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