Old Park Farmhouse, with Cottage and Byre Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
Old Park Farmhouse, with Cottage and Byre Attached
- WRENN ID
- standing-corner-thistle
- 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
- Old Park Farmhouse, with Cottage and Byre Attached, A689, Stanhope, DL13 1PE
- OS grid reference
- NY 927 382
- Coordinates
- 54.73893, -2.11461
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Park Farmhouse, with an attached cottage and byre, is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century with some alterations. It is constructed from thin courses of squared sandstone, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings, with roofs made of stone flags and Welsh slate. The building has a linear plan and consists of two storeys with four wide bays, alongside a one-storey, one-bay byre on the left.
The farmhouse on the right has a renewed central door set in a slightly chamfered stone surround with alternate-block jambs. It features rough stone lintels and sills above top-hung 20th-century casements. The cottage on the left has a similar stone surround for its right-end four-panel door on pin hinges, as well as a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor to the left, a horizontal sliding sash above, and 12-pane sashes with broad glazing bars on the right. The roof of the cottage is covered with stone flags, while the farmhouse has a Welsh slate roof, and each has a tall square chimney on the right.
The byre on the left has a blank front and a roof of Welsh slate. At the rear, there is a parallel range behind the cottage. Inside, the cottage features a wide fire cornice and a heck post, with a winder stair located to the right of the passage beside the heck post. There is also a cast iron kitchen range, made by Little of Alston, set in a plain stone surround recessed under the cornice.
Local climate
Old Park Farmhouse, with Cottage and Byre Attached 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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- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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