The Nest is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. House. 7 related planning applications.
The Nest
- WRENN ID
- waiting-chancel-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Nest, Wycliffe with Thorpe, DL12 9TS
- OS grid reference
- NZ 116 143
- Coordinates
- 54.5244, -1.82138
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Nest is a house, likely built as a verger's cottage in 1779, as indicated by a date on the door lintel. It is constructed from coursed rubble with roughly-tooled quoins and cut stone dressings. The roof is largely red tile, with stone slates to the eaves, and has brick stacks, with the left stack being partly rebuilt. The left-hand section of the roof also features late 20th-century pantiles with matching eaves. The front of the house features a central 4-panel door with a 3-pane overlight, flanked by renewed 12-pane sash windows. Above these are 9-pane casement windows. All windows and the door have lintels dressed to resemble voussoirs, and slightly-projecting sills. The ridge has gable coping while the ends have stacks. The lower left bay has two 12-pane casements with a 16-pane casement above.
Inside, the 2-panel doors have panels with clipped corners and raised beading. The parlour fireplace has a wooden surround with carved ornament, and a cupboard beside it with doors on axe-head hinges.
Local climate
The Nest receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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