West Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 August 1952. Farmhouse. 2 related planning applications.
West Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- proud-crypt-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Easington MP: Grahame Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 August 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- West Farmhouse, Hawthorn, SR7 8SG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 418 456
- Coordinates
- 54.80379, -1.35059
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 17th or early 18th century farmhouse, built in two distinct phases. It is constructed of rendered random rubble, with roofs now covered in concrete tiles. The left section is two bays wide, while the right section is narrower and projects forward. The left section has a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor, a 24-pane sash with a sliding centre pane to the right, and two 16-pane sashes above. It has projecting eaves and a rubble parapet at the left end gable and between the two sections. The roof slopes moderately and has a gable stack to the left and a central ridge stack. The projecting right section features a 20th-century door with a transom light and a 16-pane sash window on the ground floor, and a single 16-pane sash window above. This section has projecting eaves and a right gable parapet with kneelers. A buttressed return wall has an external gable stack. A three-bay, two-storey barn with a pitched tile roof, external staircase, and 20th-century windows is attached to the rear of the left section. An outshut of one bay and single storey, with a catslide roof of Welsh slate, is attached to the rear of the right section. The interior has been significantly altered in the 20th century. Attached farm buildings to the right and rear, and a single-storey garage to the left, are not considered to be of architectural interest.
Local climate
West Farmhouse sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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