Low Woodifield Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Farmhouse.

Low Woodifield Farmhouse

WRENN ID
night-arch-flax
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Low Woodifield Farmhouse, A689
OS grid reference
NZ 147 351
Coordinates
54.71085, -1.77244
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Woodifield Farmhouse is a farmhouse that probably dates from the early 17th century. It features a rendered exterior and a stone-flagged roof. The building is two storeys high and has two bays. The south elevation has a variety of window sizes with renewed glazing, while the right side has a blank half-bay that includes a one-storey 20th-century addition that projects forward, featuring a partly-glazed door on the inner return. The farmhouse has very thick battered walls and a lower second storey. The steeply-pitched roof is topped with a small chimney at the end. The left return gable has an external stack with multiple offsets that rise to the roof ridge. Inside, there are massive beams that are boarded over, and the roof structure is partly obscured but reveals pegged collared trusses, with principals crossed to support the ridge piece. The early 20th-century right extension is not of interest.

Local climate

Low Woodifield Farmhouse receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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