Nook Farmhouse, Extension and Wall to Left is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. A C19 Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.

Nook Farmhouse, Extension and Wall to Left

WRENN ID
former-wattle-heath
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
Nook Farmhouse, Extension and Wall to Left, Mill Lane, Mickleton, DL12 0JW
OS grid reference
NY 969 238
Coordinates
54.60976, -2.0484
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nook Farmhouse is a small farmhouse with a later extension and boundary wall, dating from the early to mid-19th century. A plaque above the front door is dated 1845. The farmhouse is built of squared sandstone rubble with a stone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks.

The two-storey, two-bay farmhouse has alternating, tooled-and-margined quoins. The right-hand side has a door with six flush panels and a two-pane overlight, set within a chamfered surround with a four-centred head and impost bands. Above the door is a plaque with raised lettering: “Thomas and Elizabeth Dent 1845”. There is a blank bay above the door. To the left of the door are twelve-pane sashes with flush lintels and projecting, chamfered sills. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers. The chimney stacks have top ledges and water tables.

A single-storey, one-bay extension is set back from the main building and features a single twelve-pane sash window and alternating quoins to the left. This extension has a coped left gable with a shaped kneeler.

To the left of the extension stands a tall, flat-coped wall, to which a lean-to range is attached at the rear.

At the rear of the farmhouse, a boarded door is set within a flush surround with top blocks. An altered one-storey range to the right, under a monopitch roof, has two doors in similar surrounds.

Inside, the sitting room contains a large, imported late 17th century stone fireplace with bolection moulding and an enriched corniced mantel supported on consoles.

Local climate

Nook Farmhouse, Extension and Wall to Left sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 2013
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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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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