Main's Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1975. Farmhouse.
Main's Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- brooding-rampart-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1975
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Main's Farmhouse, Front Street
- OS grid reference
- NZ 103 554
- Coordinates
- 54.8941, -1.83966
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Main's Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the 20th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble, featuring quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and yellow brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and three bays, along with a one-storey, one-bay pent extension on the right side.
The central doorway is wide and has a renewed lintel with a recessed 20th-century door. The windows have plain stone surrounds, which are wider in the outer bays, and the glazing has been renewed. The pent extension is blank. The roof includes moulded kneelers and a chimney at the right end, while the left end chimney has been truncated. At the rear, there is a full-height central square-plan stair turret. The farmhouse likely incorporates masonry from the nearby Roman fort Vindomora. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Main's Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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