High House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.

High House Farmhouse

WRENN ID
hallowed-baluster-moon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
Farmhouse
Address
High House Farmhouse, B 6278, Marwood
OS grid reference
NZ 030 202
Coordinates
54.57772, -1.9538
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High House Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated around 1750, located in Marwood. It is constructed from limewashed coursed rubble with a high squared rubble plinth, quoins, and ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate, featuring stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys. The building consists of two sections: the main house is two storeys high with three bays, and there is a two-storey, one-bay extension on the right.

The second bay contains a fitted boarded door with an overlight set in an architrave, and the date and initials above the door are partly obscured by limewash. The windows have flat stone lintels and slightly projecting stone sills, with late 19th-century sash windows. The roof features moulded kneelers, a corniced chimney at the left end, and banded chimneys to the right of the third bay and at the right end of the building.

Local climate

High House Farmhouse 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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