Sunniside Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1985. Farmhouse, adjoining farm buildings. 1 related planning application.

Sunniside Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings

WRENN ID
white-sill-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 November 1985
Type
Farmhouse, adjoining farm buildings
Address
Sunniside Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings, DL13 3BG
OS grid reference
NZ 053 358
Coordinates
54.71794, -1.9179
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Sunniside Farmhouse and adjoining farm buildings are a Grade II listed farmhouse with byres and lofts, dated 1766 for I.W. The structure is built from roughly-coursed and squared sandstone with quoins, while the byres and lofts are made of rubble sandstone. The roofs are stone-flagged, except for a renewed roof on the central lower bay. The building has a linear plan.

The farmhouse has two storeys, featuring two wide bays and a lower one-bay section to the right. The byres and lofts also have two storeys and two wide bays, with an additional one-storey, one-bay pent extension on the left. In total, there are six bays. The pent extension includes boarded vehicle doors and pigeon holes in the peak. The house features a two-panelled door on the left side of the lower section, framed by a plain stone surround with an inscribed lintel. The first two bays have three-light windows with flat-fronted mullions that are splayed on the inside, while to the right of the door is a window with three over three lights. The farm buildings to the right have two boarded doors and one small square window on the ground floor, with side stone steps leading to boarded loft doors under stone lintels. The rear of the farmhouse has a stair window with three over three lights, where two over two belong to the stairwell; the third light has vertical diagonally-set iron bars. There is a projecting bow-shaped oven to the left of this window and a catslide roof over the stair wing.

Inside, the lower two-storey section may have originally served as a hall, now with an inserted floor and side stone steps at the rear. The main room to the left of the door features a heck-post. The rear stair is a close-string design with splat balusters that are cut to imitate twists. Both rooms and cupboards have doors with four fielded panels.

Local climate

Sunniside Farmhouse and Adjoining Farm Buildings 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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  • No EPC on record for this property
  • Sale history — 1 transaction since 2017
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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