Barn 40 Metres East of Castle Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Barn.

Barn 40 Metres East of Castle Farmhouse

WRENN ID
forgotten-wattle-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 October 1987
Type
Barn
OS grid reference
NZ 054 144
Coordinates
54.52551, -1.91787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a barn located 40 metres east of Castle Farmhouse, built in the mid-18th century and altered around 1800. It is constructed of coursed rubble with cut quoins and dressings, featuring a tooled band at the first floor level and a graduated stone slate roof. The south elevation is two storeys high, with five bays and slightly projecting entrance bays at each end. The central section has a first floor band, with blocked doors and windows at ground level, and a tall first floor that includes a stable door set in an alternating-block surround, along with slit vents. The end bays also have blocked doors, windows, and slit vents positioned at the top.

The left side of the barn features a first floor band, a ground floor window, a boarded pitching door, and three slit vents, as well as an owl hole in the gable; the right side is similar. The recessed central part of the rear wall was rebuilt to align with the ends around 1800 and includes an external stone stair leading to an upper door, along with slit vents and roof weathering from a now-removed wheelhouse. There are attached single-storey farmbuilding ranges on the south and east sides, but these are not of special interest.

Local climate

Barn 40 Metres East of Castle Farmhouse 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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