Farmbuilding Group to North of Barnforth Hall is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Farmbuilding group.

Farmbuilding Group to North of Barnforth Hall

WRENN ID
tall-spandrel-ridge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Farmbuilding group
Address
Farmbuilding Group to North of Barnforth Hall, Barforth
OS grid reference
NZ 163 167
Coordinates
54.54576, -1.74813
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The farmbuilding group located to the north of Barforth Hall dates from the late 18th century, with an early 19th-century wheel-house. The buildings are constructed of rubble with cut quoins and feature tooled-and-margined dressings. Most roofs are made of stone slate, except for the wheel-house, which has Welsh slates, the adjacent cartshed covered with 20th-century metal sheets, and the east range outshut that has pantiles. The buildings are arranged around a yard that is open to the south, with the wheel-house positioned at the rear of the north range.

The north range has two storeys and four bays, featuring boarded double doors set in a tall segmental arch. To the right, there is a window with a keyed lintel and two part-slatted windows above. The east range also has two storeys and three bays, with two stable doors featuring keyed lintels and windows above (the upper ones being slatted) with tooled-and-margined lintels. On the far left, there is a stone stair leading to a boarded upper door, and the right return displays a boarded pitching door. The west range is divided into two parts: the left section is two-storey with a boarded pitching door, while the right section is a single-storey, four-bay shelter shed with tooled-and-margined piers, timber lintels, and later infill.

Externally, the hexagonal wheel-house to the north has a boarded door and three blocked windows, with an attached cartshed to the left. The outshut at the rear of the east range features three stable doors and two small windows.

Inside, the east range includes a reset 16th-century ceiling, which consists of seven deeply-moulded transverse beams with 14 roll-moulded joists in each bay. This ceiling may have originated from the west range of Barforth Hall, which was demolished in the early 19th century.

Local climate

Farmbuilding Group to North of Barnforth Hall receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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