Abbey Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Cottages. 2 related planning applications.

Abbey Cottages

WRENN ID
open-obsidian-fog
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Cottages
Address
Abbey Cottages, 1-4, Abbey Lane, Egglestone Abbey, DL12 9TN
OS grid reference
NZ 061 150
Coordinates
54.53109, -1.90692
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Abbey Cottages is a terrace of cottages built around 1800 and altered in the mid-19th century. The cottages are constructed of rubble with roughly-tooled quoins and door lintels, featuring cut stone window surrounds and graduated stone slate roofs. They are two storeys high with four bays. Each pair of cottages has vertical-panelled doors beneath later porches supported by cast-iron posts that carry flat slab hoods. The windows are 20th-century 9-pane casements set in mid-19th century chamfered stone surrounds. The cottages also have stepped-and-banded end and ridge stacks. The rear elevation displays 4-pane Yorkshire sashes on the first floor. The cottages are included for their group value, although the 20th-century porches at the rear are not considered of interest.

Local climate

Abbey Cottages 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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