Privy to Rear of Wiserley Hall Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Privy.

Privy to Rear of Wiserley Hall Farmhouse

WRENN ID
narrow-outpost-moss
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Privy
Address
Privy to Rear of Wiserley Hall Farmhouse, Wear Bank, Wolsingham
OS grid reference
NZ 085 362
Coordinates
54.72116, -1.86907
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an 18th-century privy located at the rear of Wiserley Hall Farmhouse. It is constructed from coursed rubble and features a stone-flagged roof. The structure is one storey and consists of one bay, with a pent roof against the rear left corner of the house and an adjacent wall. The entrance has a wood lintel, with a stone lintel inserted above it on the side facing the house. Inside, there is a two-hole wooden seat and a child's size one-hole seat positioned at right angles to it.

Local climate

Privy to Rear of Wiserley Hall Farmhouse receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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