Gillbeck House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. House. 3 related planning applications.

Gillbeck House

WRENN ID
burning-buttress-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
House
Address
Gillbeck House, Barningham, DL11 7DU
OS grid reference
NZ 083 103
Coordinates
54.48804, -1.87306
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Gillbeck House is a house dated 1746, marked with the initials RM, and altered in the early 20th century. It is constructed of tooled-and-margined stone of near-ashlar quality, with tooled ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with hardrow tiles from the 20th century and features stacks made of rough-faced stone. The building has two storeys plus attics and consists of two bays. It has rusticated quoins and a central half-glazed door that has been renewed, set within a shouldered architrave featuring a pulvinated frieze and cornice, with a datestone above. The windows are 4-pane sash types set in architraves. The roof is tall and steeply pitched, with two flat-topped dormers, each containing paired 4-pane sashes. There is a projecting corniced stack on the right side of the roof slope and a smaller corniced stack at the left end of the ridge. The rear elevation features a central arched stair window, which is a 12-pane sash with intersecting glazing bars, set in a stone surround with imposts and a keystone. Additionally, there are two early 20th-century roof dormers, similar to those at the front.

Local climate

Gillbeck House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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