Kimblesworth Grange Farmhouse with Wall and Outhouse Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 January 1988. A Early C19 Farmhouse, outbuilding. 1 related planning application.

Kimblesworth Grange Farmhouse with Wall and Outhouse Attached

WRENN ID
gilded-plaster-ivy
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
14 January 1988
Type
Farmhouse, outbuilding
Address
Kimblesworth Grange Farmhouse with Wall and Outhouse Attached, Stank Lane, Witton Gilbert, DH1 5SL
OS grid reference
NZ 259 464
Coordinates
54.81197, -1.59828
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is an early 19th-century farmhouse, likely incorporating a mid-18th century structure. It is built of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and ashlar dressings. The roof is mainly Welsh slate, with yellow brick, rendered and ashlar chimneys, stone gable coping to the porch, and pantile roofing to the rear wing and outbuilding.

The main range is two storeys high and six bays wide, with the two right bays slightly lower. A half-glazed door is set within a recessed, diamond-panelled porch, which has gabled coping and curved kneelers. A 3-light window was inserted in the 20th century to the left of the porch. The remaining windows are 16-pane sashes with glazing bars, except for a 12-pane sash in the right-end bay, which is in a blocked doorway. Eleven windows have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills; those on the first floor of the two left bays are wider and lower. There are ridge chimneys, with banded yellow brick at the left end, an ashlar-corniced and rendered chimney to the right of the door, and ashlar chimneys with cornices at the right end of the main roof and the lower right roof.

A stepped wall, set back to the right, connects to an outhouse, likely a former earth closet, with a pent roof. A two-storey rear wing has varied windows. A later passage, of little architectural interest, links the rear wing to the outhouse. A one-storey outbuilding, set at a right angle to the rear wing gable, has been altered and is no longer of significant interest.

Local climate

Kimblesworth Grange Farmhouse with Wall and Outhouse Attached receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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  • Sale history — 19 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
  • 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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