Grey Croft Farmhouse with Outbuilding and Farmbuilding Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Farmhouse.

Grey Croft Farmhouse with Outbuilding and Farmbuilding Attached

WRENN ID
steep-mantel-summer
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Grey Croft Farmhouse with Outbuilding and Farmbuilding Attached, Middleton in Teesdale
OS grid reference
NY 942 266
Coordinates
54.6353, -2.0906
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Grey Croft is a farmhouse and former cottage, now serving as an outbuilding, with an attached byre and loft. It likely dates from the early 18th century, with alterations and rebuilding of the byre in 1833, as indicated by a date above the byre door for A. Todd. The 18th-century section features thinly-rendered coursed rubble with millstone grit quoins, a boulder plinth, and ashlar dressings, topped with a stone-flagged roof. The 19th-century part is made of coursed squared sandstone with tooled coarse sandstone dressings and a graduated green slate roof. The building has a longhouse plan and is two storeys high with nine bays.

The two-bay house section has a flat stone lintel over an inserted door on the left, with flat stone lintels and sills, some of which are re-used early 18th-century elements, above late 19th-century sash windows on the right and two above. The former house on the left, now an outbuilding or workshop, retains some quoins near a renewed door on the right, an early 18th-century re-used flat stone lintel and sill for a ground-floor four-pane sash, and a renewed twelve-pane sash above. Its eaves are slightly lower than those of the main house, with details obscured by vegetation.

The five-bay byre on the right features a plain stone surround for a boarded cross-passage door in the first bay, Dutch doors in the second and fourth bays with tooled surrounds and impost blocks, and a similar surround for a first-floor boarded loft door in the third bay, which is partly renewed and partly early 19th-century with carved initials. There are flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills for two fixed lights between the doors. The building has four square ridge chimneys located at the ends of the range and the house.

Inside, the interior shows a blocked byre door and house door in the cross passage, with the house entrance featuring a re-used cruck collar as a lintel. Peg holes are visible, and the owner reports that mortices are now concealed. A bulge in the passage suggests that a house oven is concealed by the wall.

Local climate

Grey Croft Farmhouse with Outbuilding and Farmbuilding Attached sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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