Gable End Rokeby House the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. House.
Gable End Rokeby House the Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lost-shingle-birch
- 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
- Gable End Rokeby House the Cottage, A66
- OS grid reference
- NZ 088 130
- Coordinates
- 54.51266, -1.86436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Rokeby House, The Cottage, and Gable End are three houses with various 18th century dates, except for Rokeby House, which was added later. All the houses were refenestrated in the early 19th century. They are constructed of squared stone with tooled-and-margined lintels. Rokeby House features a graduated stone slate roof, while the other houses have 20th century concrete tiles. The buildings are two storeys high with a total of seven bays. The two-bay Rokeby House on the left is slightly taller than the others and has a four-panel door with a four-pane overlight; the other doors have been renewed. Most windows are 16-pane sash windows, except for one 20th century bow window. Old angle quoins on the front elevation indicate four stages of addition to an early 18th century two-bay original house. The building has end and four ridge stacks, and there is a 12-pane Yorkshire sash window on the right return.
At the rear, Rokeby House has a 1½-storey wing with three low fixed windows that are heavily barred, set in chamfered surrounds. The interior of Rokeby House was used as the Greta Bridge police station in the 19th century. In the rear wing, there are two cells with original doors and vertical-sliding iron shutters.
Local climate
Gable End Rokeby House the Cottage receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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