High Doctor Pasture Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.
High Doctor Pasture Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- knotted-column-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High Doctor Pasture Farmhouse, Leazes Lane, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 068 384
- Coordinates
- 54.74109, -1.89462
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Doctor Pasture Farmhouse is a farmhouse, now a house, dated 1720 on the door lintel. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring a roughly-dressed plinth and throughstones in the rear and rear outshut walls. The stone-flagged roof has a left stone gable coping and a rendered chimney. The building is two storeys high with three windows. The central boarded door has a lift-scutcheon latch and is set in a square-headed stone surround with a lintel that is incised with "TCM 1720". The ground-floor windows are two-light horizontal sliding sashes with flat stone lintels and flat stone sills. The first-floor two-light windows have flat-fronted mullions and are single-chamfered. Quoins are visible on the left side only, as the right end is obscured by a later building that projects forward. There is a chimney on the left end and a rear outshut with a full-width catslide roof.
Inside, there is a panelled cupboard that formerly held a box-bed, located in a panelled screen to the right of the entrance. The interior also features a chamfered segmental fire-arch with a salt-cupboard, and a rear close-string stair that runs parallel with the main wall, complete with a panelled handrail on splat balusters carved to imitate a barley-sugar twist.
A left extension built around 1900 and attached farm buildings on the right are not of interest.
Local climate
High Doctor Pasture Farmhouse receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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