Towler Hill Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. A C18 Farmhouse.

Towler Hill Farmhouse

WRENN ID
winter-timber-smoke
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 June 1986
Type
Farmhouse
Address
Towler Hill Farmhouse, Lartington Lane, Cotherstone
OS grid reference
NZ 036 178
Coordinates
54.55619, -1.94522
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Towler Hill Farmhouse is a mid-18th century farmhouse that has been converted into two dwellings, with a left section dating from the late 18th to early 19th century that was originally a byre. The building is constructed of squared rubble and features a sandstone-flagged roof with stone chimney stacks.

The front of the farmhouse is continuous and two stories high, consisting of a three-bay house on the right and a two-bay section on the left. The ends and the joint between the sections have flush quoins. The openings are topped with stone, flat-arched lintels that have segmental tops, although the openings in the left section were altered in the late 20th century and now feature replaced two-pane sashes.

The right side of the house has a central replaced glazed door with an overlight, paired sashes in a late 20th-century opening to the left, a single sash to the right, and three windows above. The left section has a replaced partly-glazed door to the right, with single and paired sashes to the left and two windows above. The continuous roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers at the junction, and there are right end, central, and left ridge stacks, all featuring top bands and water tables. The rear of the building has scattered, replaced two-pane sashes.

Inside, the right ground-floor room of the original farmhouse includes a large stone fireplace with a projecting lintel supported by corbelled jambs.

Local climate

Towler Hill Farmhouse receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 71% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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