Old Farm Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. House. 4 related planning applications.
Old Farm Cottage
- WRENN ID
- lone-bracket-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Old Farm Cottage, School Aycliffe Lane, Great Aycliffe, DL5 6QY
- OS grid reference
- NZ 259 236
- Coordinates
- 54.60695, -1.6005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Farm Cottage is a house dating largely from the late 18th century, with a right gable of 17th-century origin. The structure is built of sandstone rubble with dressed quoins, and has a renewed pantiled roof with rebuilt stone chimneys. It is two storeys high with four windows. The front features a 20th-century wood door under a renewed Tudor-arched head and square hoodmould, situated in the third bay. The windows are renewed casements with leaded lights. The ground floor has three-light mullioned windows, beneath original hoodmoulds, flanking the door and a single-light window in the left bay. The first floor mirrors this with two similar three-light windows and a single-light window in the left bay, set under renewed hoodmoulds. The steeply-pitched roof has renewed coped gables, shaped kneelers, and end chimneys. Later additions to the left side are not considered to have group value.
Local climate
Old Farm Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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