Lune Head Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 January 1989. Cottage.

Lune Head Cottages

WRENN ID
broken-lancet-dock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 January 1989
Type
Cottage
Address
Lune Head Cottages, B6276, Lunedale
OS grid reference
NY 846 206
Coordinates
54.58058, -2.23839
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lune Head Cottages are mid-19th century mine workers' cottages. They are constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and feature a stone slate roof. The building is two storeys high and has two gable stacks. The south front has a central pair of plank doors, with a single casement window on each side, and above these are two similar casement windows. The rear elevation includes an off-centre plank door with an overlight, flanked by single casements, with two similar casements above.

Local climate

Lune Head Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 62 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 41 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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