Low Aller's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Cottage.

Low Aller's Cottage

WRENN ID
turning-niche-sunrise
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Cottage
Address
Low Aller's Cottage, Allers Lane, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 849 410
Coordinates
54.7642, -2.23569
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Aller's Cottage is a late 18th-century cottage that was restored around 1990. It is constructed of coursed, dressed stone and features a stone slate roof with a single gable stack. The cottage has quoins and the northeast front includes a single doorway on the left with a 20th-century door, and to the right, there is a 12-pane glazing bar sash window. Above this, there is another similar sash window. The rear has a cat slide roof and a single-storey lean-to on the southeast gable wall.

Local climate

Low Aller's Cottage sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 68 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 47 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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