Former Farmhouse at West Farm is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse. 3 related planning applications.
Former Farmhouse at West Farm
- WRENN ID
- lunar-trefoil-pine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Former Farmhouse at West Farm, Streatlam and Stainton, DL12 8RD
- OS grid reference
- NZ 068 186
- Coordinates
- 54.56273, -1.89606
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The former farmhouse, with a cottage and stable, dates to the early 18th century, likely incorporating an earlier house. An extension was added in the early 19th century, with a further addition in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins. The roof is stone-flagged with stone gable copings and stone, brick, and rendered chimneys. One section has a Welsh slate roof, another has pantiles, and a rear outshut utilizes corrugated asbestos.
The farmhouse is two low storeys, originally five bays wide, with a single-storey, two-bay stable set to the right. The first two bays feature a renewed front door in a plain stone surround, and square, late-19th century, ground-floor and four-over-eight sash windows in similar surrounds. Three bays project slightly; the left corner was rebuilt nearly to eaves level, with a four-over-eight sash window on the first floor and a horizontal sliding sash below. The second bay has a flat stone lintel over a three-pane overlight and a blocked door flanked by small, blocked square windows, all with plain stone surrounds. A similar lintel and projecting stone sill sit below a sash with glazing bars, possibly replacing a loft door. The third bay has boarded vehicle doors below a four-over-eight sash in a plain stone surround. The right, set-back stable has pierced boarded vehicle doors to the left and boarded Dutch doors to the right. The roof has a moulded kneeler on the left gable coping. There are banded brick chimneys to the left and on the left projection, and a rendered chimney to the right. A large, external rubble stack is truncated on the left return gable. A four-bay, single-storey rear outshut, largely pantiled, features a central open porch.
Inside, a wide, segmental, keyed fire-arch is visible on the ground floor, with wide segmental run-off chamfers to the beams and joists. There is a horizontal plank screen and a two-panel door to the foot of a rear staircase. Similar doors, featuring L-hinges, are found throughout. Another screen is located on the second-floor landing. Cornices are present over the windows in the third bay, the upper section of which is richly carved. The interior also displays cambered beams, with three pegs to the principal rafters which are pegged and cut at the apex to receive the ridge. Two levels of purlins are also visible. The walls are very thick.
The building was derelict when surveyed.
Local climate
Former Farmhouse at West Farm receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2003
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- 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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