High Green Farmhouse and Outbuilding Extension is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse. 4 related planning applications.
High Green Farmhouse and Outbuilding Extension
- WRENN ID
- narrow-footing-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High Green Farmhouse and Outbuilding Extension, Mickleton
- OS grid reference
- NY 974 235
- Coordinates
- 54.60719, -2.04111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Green Farmhouse and associated outbuilding extension is a substantial farmhouse dated 1752, as inscribed on the doorway. It is constructed of squared sandstone rubble with a stone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks. The building follows a double-pile plan.
The main garden front is two storeys and five bays, with a two-bay, two-storey extension to the left, which was originally a stable with a loft and is now used for storage. The right side and the junction between the house and extension feature raised-and-chamfered quoins. The central doorway has a six-panel door and a four-pane overlight, set within a pedimented doorcase with a frieze inscribed "John and Mary Dent 1752." The windows are primarily 12-pane sashes in moulded surrounds with projecting chamfered sills, though those to the left of the doorway have been replaced with four-pane sashes. The extension has a replaced boarded door in a flush surround to the right and a stone staircase leading to a boarded door on the left. The roof is continuous with coped gables and shaped kneelers. Stepped and corniced details are found at the right end and ridge, with an identical stack above the junction.
Several throughstones are visible on the left return of the extension.
The rear of the house faces the main road. The house has a low plinth and scattered window openings. Six steps lead to a six-panel door in an architrave on the left. Sixteen-pane sashes are found in the end bays, and a first-floor stair window with a radial head in a moulded round-arched surround is located to the right of the doorway. The extension features a boarded door in a re-set flush surround, along with a replaced four-pane casement to the left and a pigeon opening with a ledge below the eaves. The roofing details are similar to those of the main house.
The interior includes a cut-string dogleg staircase with a ramped moulded handrail and knopped turned balusters on the upper flight. The kitchen has an elaborate Delft rack with fluted pilasters. There are several four-panel doors and internal window shutters throughout the house.
Local climate
High Green Farmhouse and Outbuilding Extension sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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 — 4 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 4 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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