The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House.

The Cottage

WRENN ID
outer-hearth-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
The Cottage, Front Street, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 894 379
Coordinates
54.73608, -2.16592
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Cottage is a house that dates from the 18th century or earlier. It features roughly-coursed, thick sandstone rubble walls, with the left end rendered. The roof is made of stone flags. The building is two storeys high and has two windows. There is a modern door located beneath a slightly-projecting drip-lintel. The windows include small casements and a Yorkshire sash, with the ground-floor left window positioned under a through drip. All windows are in old openings, except for the ground-floor right window, which has been enlarged to accommodate a fire window. The house has end chimneys that include dripstones.

Local climate

The Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 70 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 49 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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