High Smailsburn Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.
High Smailsburn Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- mired-portal-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High Smailsburn Farmhouse, Stanhope
- OS grid reference
- NY 937 415
- Coordinates
- 54.76895, -2.09926
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Smailsburn Farmhouse is an early 18th-century farmhouse that has been converted to storage. It is constructed from sandstone and millstone grit rubble with ashlar dressings, and features a partly-rendered left return gable and a stone-flagged roof. The building includes a one-storey barn on the left, which is continuous with the one-and-a-half-storey house, comprising one and two bays. The barn has a central door framed by monolith millstone grit jambs and a flat grit lintel, along with a small left window that has a thin stone lintel and sill, complete with glazing bars. The house features a central pent porch with a door located in the right return, a nearly-square window on the ground floor to the left, and smaller windows above, some of which have glazing bars. A low square chimney is positioned at the left side of the house. Inside, there is a stair against the right gable and partly-visible roof trusses that are swept at the eaves.
Local climate
High Smailsburn Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 970 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 42 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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