Levy Pool Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Farmhouse. 1 related planning application.

Levy Pool Farmhouse

WRENN ID
dark-courtyard-vetch
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
Levy Pool Farmhouse, Bowes
OS grid reference
NY 968 154
Coordinates
54.53416, -2.05043
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Levy Pool Farmhouse is a farmhouse dated 1736, featuring the initials G & M.A on the door lintel, with later additions and alterations. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with a plinth and large horizontal quoins. The roof is thatched with flag eaves courses and has a steep pitch with reverse-stepped gables. The building has a two-cell plan with an original left rear outshut, likely used as a dairy. It is two storeys high and has three bays, with a later added central porch that has a pent roof. The windows have flat stone surrounds, but the mullions have been removed, leaving diagonal bar holes on both floors flanking the porch. There is a small fire window on the ground floor to the left.

Inside, there is a full-height stout masonry partition that divides the hall, which is accessed directly from the porch, from the right room, which was probably once divided into a front parlour and a rear service room. The front part has a small fireplace, while the left end wall of the main hall features a large 18th-century fireplace.

At the time of the survey, the farmhouse was empty and derelict, with the roof and ceilings collapsed and the openings blank.

Local climate

Levy Pool Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 59 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% 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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