Ludwell Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Ludwell Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- shifting-pewter-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Ludwell Farmhouse, Stanhope, DL13 2LG
- OS grid reference
- NY 943 381
- Coordinates
- 54.73834, -2.08984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Ludwell Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1614, marked by the initials AE RA on the lintel. It is constructed from sandstone and limestone rubble, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a stone-flagged roof. The building has two storeys and consists of five bays, with a left extension that has two higher storeys and one bay.
The third bay contains a square-headed surround with a broach-stopped chamfer, which frames a 20th-century four-panel door; there is a blank space above this door. The fenestration is irregular, with all windows being renewed sashes or horizontal sliding sashes that include glazing bars, flat stone lintels, and either flat or projecting stone sills. There is a four-panelled door located to the left of the wide, set-back right bay, which is in a pecked stone surround, featuring pecked sills and lintels in this bay. Some windows are blocked and are partly obscured by pointing carried out around 1984.
Local climate
Ludwell Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 43 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- 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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