House East of the Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House.

House East of the Cottage

WRENN ID
hushed-minaret-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
House East of the Cottage, Front Street, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NZ 027 369
Coordinates
54.72792, -1.95936
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a house located east of The Cottage, dating from the early 19th century. It is built of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features a stone-slated roof. The building has two storeys and two windows. There is a boarded door on the right, which is set under a flat stone lintel. The left bay has 16-pane sash windows, while there is a 12-pane sash window above the door, all with similar flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. An end stone chimney is also present. This house is included for its group value.

Local climate

House East of the Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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