West Park Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse.
West Park Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- still-newel-barley
- 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
- West Park Farmhouse, Briscoe Lane, Cotherstone
- OS grid reference
- NY 998 199
- Coordinates
- 54.57456, -2.00454
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Park Farmhouse is a late 18th-century farmhouse that consists of two builds with early 19th-century additions. It is constructed of dressed sandstone and features a stone-flagged roof with stone chimney stacks. The building has a double-depth plan and includes two lean-tos on the right return and at the rear.
The front of the farmhouse is continuous and two stories high. The right section has three bays, while the left section, which was formerly a stable, has two narrow bays. The right section features a low plinth with flush quoins on the right side and at the junction. The central bay is blank, with two-pane sash windows on the ground floor and 12-pane sash windows above. The left section also has flush quoins on the left side, a partly-glazed four-panel door, and a two-pane overlight in the right bay, along with a first-floor 12-pane sash window in the left bay. The windows are topped with stone flat-arched lintels that have segmental tops. The roof has coped gables, a coping at the junction, and shaped kneelers, along with end stacks and a ridge stack that features top bands and water tables.
On the right return, there is a two-story set-back lean-to that has a replaced partly-glazed door and a four-pane sash window above. At the far right, there is a one-story set-back lean-to that has a 12-pane sash window.
Inside, the ground-floor sitting room boasts an elaborate marble chimney-piece that originated from Hornby Castle in Yorkshire.
Local climate
West Park Farmhouse 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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