High Woodfield Farmhouse, East and West is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1952. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.
High Woodfield Farmhouse, East and West
- WRENN ID
- steep-quartz-elm
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 April 1952
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- High Woodfield Farmhouse, East and West, DL15 9QA
- OS grid reference
- NZ 143 350
- Coordinates
- 54.71001, -1.77914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High Woodfield Farmhouse is a building that has been divided into two separate homes. It consists of two parts, likely built in the 16th century, with a partial rebuild from the 17th century of an older structure that may have served as a wing to the western hall section. The farmhouse is constructed from sandstone rubble with large corner stones and ashlar dressings. The western part of the south elevation has painted render, and the roofs are covered with interlocking pantiles, featuring stone gable copings and chimneys made of stone, brick, and render.
The south elevation has two storeys with three bays on the higher eastern part, which is now divided, and the eastern bay is part of a separate house. This section has two bays with irregular window arrangements, including some renewed windows with flat stone lintels. The stone surround of the first-floor left window features a recessed chamfer and renewed cross glazing, with traces of older windows visible. The western part has an irregular rubble plinth and flat stone lintels with projecting stone sills for three windows, all of which have been renewed or inserted. The right gable has a steep pitch with overlapping stone gable coping and a damaged ridge finial. There is a massive stone chimney on the left and a brick ridge chimney located between the second and third bays of the left part, along with a large rear chimney with offsets on the right side of the eastern part. A 20th-century porch is located on the right return gable, and there is a short domestic extension at the back.
Inside, the eastern house features walls that are about one metre thick and a chimney stack positioned between the bays. There is a door with a round head on the west wall that was formerly an entrance, and a second former entrance is located at the east end of the north wall, which has a chamfered square head. The ceiling in the western part has stout stop-chamfered beams and joists.
There is a barn wing at the rear that has been altered too much to be of interest, as well as a lean-to extension on the north and a one-storey gabled extension on the south, neither of which are of particular interest.
Local climate
High Woodfield Farmhouse, East and West receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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- No sale records on file
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