Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Garden House
- WRENN ID
- idle-roof-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Garden House, North Drive, Brancepeth, DH7 8DZ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 230 377
- Coordinates
- 54.73424, -1.64365
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House is a former head gardener's house, now a private dwelling, built in the mid-19th century for the Brancepeth Estate. The building features roughcast masonry and chimney stacks, topped with a graduated green slate roof. It has an H-plan layout and is two stories high with a three-bay front, where the central bay is flanked by projecting cross-gabled wings.
A wide semicircular porch has been added to the central bay, featuring a central six-panel door and a patterned overlight, framed by paired Doric columns. On either side of the porch are 12-pane sash windows, which are also framed by identical end columns and an entablature that projects forward above the paired columns. The wings have 12-pane sash windows with projecting sills, and the roofs have overhanging eaves and verges, with exposed purlins.
Tall corniced lateral stacks are located on the inner returns. The right return has a doorway with a four-centred head under a hoodmould, flanked by segmental bow windows. Above the door, there is a small gabled half-dormer with a 12-pane sash window.
Local climate
Garden House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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