Raby Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
Raby Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- pale-panel-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Raby Hill Farmhouse, Raby with Keverstone
- OS grid reference
- NZ 120 226
- Coordinates
- 54.59846, -1.81537
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Raby Hill Farmhouse is a farmhouse built in the mid-18th century by J. Paine, likely based on a design by D. Garrett. It features limewashed rubble with a plinth and ashlar dressings, and the roofs are covered with Welsh slate. The rear of the left wing has a stone-flagged roof, the right wing is roofed in corrugated asbestos, and the rear left wing has a pantiled roof with stone eaves. The building has brick chimneys and is designed in a Gothic style.
The farmhouse is symmetrical, consisting of two storeys with three bays and one-storey, one-bay wings. A central boarded door is topped with a patterned fanlight and set within a hollow-chamfered, centred-arched surround, which has a dripmould above. The windows are styled similarly, with the window above the door featuring a label mould and paired stone-mullioned lights beneath a lozenge-shaped top light. A stone-mullioned quatrefoil is located in the wide gable peak, which has moulded coping and a top chimney. The flanking outbuildings each have one opening with a shaped stone surround and were formerly battlemented.
Local climate
Raby Hill Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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