Barrack Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Barrack Farmhouse

WRENN ID
twisted-corner-hazel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Barrack Farmhouse, Bridge Street, Tow Law, DL13 4LQ
OS grid reference
NZ 122 385
Coordinates
54.74137, -1.81082
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Barrack Farmhouse is a linear farm building that includes a house and barn, dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed from thinly-rendered sandstone rubble, featuring ashlar quoins and dressings. The house has a roof made of stone flags, while the barn has a roof of concrete tiles. The building has yellow brick chimneys and stands two storeys high, with a four-bay barn and stable alongside a two-bay house.

The house features flat stone lintels above a boarded Dutch door in the second bay and the main house door in the fifth bay. Similar lintels and projecting stone sills are present above a central boarded loft door on the first floor, two ground-floor windows with lower glazing bars, and one first-floor barn window. The house includes one ground-floor sash window and two first-floor sash windows, all with late 19th-century glazing bars, flat stone sills, and lintels. There is a blocked hearth-entry door to the right of the barn. A porch was added to the house around 1900. The return gables display reverse crow steps, and there are two ridge chimneys at the ends of the house.

Local climate

Barrack Farmhouse 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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