Beckwath is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. House. 5 related planning applications.
Beckwath
- WRENN ID
- wild-lintel-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Beckwath, the Green, Romaldkirk, DL12 9EE
- OS grid reference
- NY 996 221
- Coordinates
- 54.59452, -2.00719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Beckwath is a large house built around 1800. It is constructed from squared sandstone rubble, featuring a stone-flagged roof and stone chimney stacks. The building has a reversed E-plan and is two stories tall with a symmetrical seven-bay front. The façade includes a low plinth and raised-and-chamfered quoins. The central doorway is framed by a modern ashlar stone architrave and a modern moulded stone entablature supported by consoles, with a replaced timber and glazed door. The windows are leaded cross casements set in raised moulded surrounds, which are elongated on the ground floor. The gutter is supported by paired square stone brackets. The roof has coped gables and shaped kneelers, with stepped-and-corniced end stacks that feature water tables. At the rear, there are two gabled end wings and a set-back gabled center, with scattered 12-pane sashes in raised moulded surrounds.
Inside, there is a dogleg staircase consisting of two flights plus a landing rail, which has turned balusters and a ramped handrail.
Local climate
Beckwath 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1998
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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