Farm Building North West of Esh Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1987. Farm building.
Farm Building North West of Esh Hall
- WRENN ID
- buried-cellar-flax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1987
- Type
- Farm building
- Address
- Farm Building North West of Esh Hall, Hall Lane
- OS grid reference
- NZ 196 437
- Coordinates
- 54.78834, -1.69547
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a farm building, now used as a calf house and storage loft, located northwest of Esh Hall. It dates from the 17th century and is constructed of thinly-rendered sandstone rubble, featuring a rendered boulder plinth on the left side and ashlar dressings. The building has a stone-flagged roof and consists of one storey with six bays.
The third bay has a chamfered flat-Tudor-arched surround to a recessed boarded Dutch door. The fifth bay contains a boarded door with a flat stone lintel and a three-pane overlight, while the sixth bay has a similar boarded door with a flat stone lintel. The first bay features a wide irregular wood lintel above a renewed window with metal glazing bars and a top-opening light. Other bays have similar windows and boarded openings of various sizes.
On the left side, there is a blocked loft door above a 20th-century adjacent building. The right side has stone steps leading to a boarded Dutch door and a rendered drinking trough positioned at the angle with the steps.
Inside, the building has substantial chamfered joists and a central longitudinal beam on the right side. The roof is supported by upper crucks with collars and struts, but lacks a ridge piece. The roofing flags, which are now fixed by pegs, have been reused from sheep-bone fixing.
Local climate
Farm Building North West of Esh Hall receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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