Bridge End House with Adjacent Coach House and Yard Walls is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. House, coach house, yard walls. 4 related planning applications.
Bridge End House with Adjacent Coach House and Yard Walls
- WRENN ID
- riven-hinge-indigo
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- House, coach house, yard walls
- Address
- Bridge End House with Adjacent Coach House and Yard Walls, 5, Startforth
- OS grid reference
- NZ 047 163
- Coordinates
- 54.54266, -1.92795
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bridge End House, with its adjacent coach house and yard walls, dates primarily to the early 19th century, although it incorporates an earlier 18th-century house as a rear wing. The front and yard walls are built of squared, tooled stone, with roughly-squared or rubble stone used elsewhere. The front block has C20 hardrow tile roofing, the coach house has Welsh slate, and the rear wing has graduated stone slates. Brick stacks are found on the front blocks and the rear wing.
The main house is two stories and three bays. A six-panel door with a patterned overlight sits within a stone surround, positioned between the right bays. To the left are two canted bays resting on stone bases, with 12-pane sashes flanked by 8-pane sashes. Other windows are 12-pane sashes within stone surrounds. Coped gables sit atop moulded kneelers, with end stacks. A tall, flat-coped yard wall runs to the left, incorporating boarded double gates between square-pyramid-capped piers at the left end. The two-bay coach house behind has boarded double doors under an elliptical arch, a blocked doorway, and a boarded loft door with a four-pane overlight; it also has a banded ridge stack.
An irregular right return incorporates the gable end of an older house that has since been demolished. The rear wing, raised to three stories in the early 19th century, features a central chamfered doorway flanked by 12-pane sashes in tooled surrounds. Above are older windows with stone surrounds, one of which is mullioned. A coped gable with kneelers is also present. A later one-story bay extends to the right, displaying a brick end stack, and 12-pane sashes in tooled surrounds on its south side.
Inside the rear wing, fielded-panel doors, a dog-leg cut-string staircase with stick balusters, pierced newels, and a moulded ramped handrail are notable features.
Historically, the property served as the manager's house for Ullathorne Mill, which has since been demolished.
Local climate
Bridge End House with Adjacent Coach House and Yard Walls 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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