Castle Farmhouse and Byre with Loft to Left is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
Castle Farmhouse and Byre with Loft to Left
- WRENN ID
- tenth-porch-cobweb
- 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
- Castle Farmhouse and Byre with Loft to Left, Chapel Lane, Scargill, DL12 9TA
- OS grid reference
- NZ 052 107
- Coordinates
- 54.49218, -1.91974
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Farmhouse and the attached byre with loft to the left are 18th-century structures with two builds and 19th-century additions and alterations. The farmhouse features coursed sandstone rubble, a stone-flagged roof, and stone chimneys, while the farmbuilding has a corrugated-asbestos roof.
The two-storey, four-bay farmhouse has a low plinth and alternating quoins. There is a replaced door in a projecting, chamfered surround between the third and fourth bays, flanked by replaced four-pane sash windows in projecting surrounds with raised keystones. Identical sashes are found in flush square surrounds to the left. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers, with end and ridge stacks that have top bands. At the rear, there is an eight-pane stair window with a segmental head and two single-storey outshuts.
The byre with loft is two storeys and has two bays. It features a boarded door in a surround with alternating jambs, an external stone stair to the left, a replaced casement to the right, a boarded door, and a square opening above. The roof has replaced coping on the left gable.
Local climate
Castle Farmhouse and Byre with Loft to Left receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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