Castle Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.
Castle Hill Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- eastward-tracery-sparrow
- 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
- Castle Hill Farmhouse, B6296, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 090 389
- Coordinates
- 54.74539, -1.86128
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Castle Hill Farmhouse is a house and cottage that have been combined into one dwelling, dating from the early to mid-18th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings. The roof has been renewed with dark asbestos slate tiles and features stone gable copings and brick chimneys. It is two storeys high and has four windows. The second bay has a raised stone surround for a six-panel door, while the first three bays have similar surrounds for margined sashes. The fourth bay contains fixed lights with glazing bars and top-hung casements. The gable copings rest on widely-curved kneelers, and there are chimneys located at the left end and to the right of the third bay, with a truncated stone chimney at the right end.
Inside, there is a square open-well staircase at the center rear, which has a ramped moulded handrail on fluted newels and a Chinese fret balustrade. The interior also features some two-panel doors, some H hinges, and architraves for the six-panel doors with fielded panels.
Local climate
Castle Hill Farmhouse 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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