Marwood Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 November 1994. Cottage. 1 related planning application.
Marwood Cottage
- WRENN ID
- hallowed-niche-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 November 1994
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Marwood Cottage, 1 and 2, Vere Road, Barnard Castle, DL12 8AH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 048 166
- Coordinates
- 54.54545, -1.92725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Marwood Cottage is a keeper's lodge, now divided into two private houses, built around 1830 for Lord Barnard. The structure is made of coursed rubble with pecked quoins, and the roof features renewed stone flags, a stone ridge, and stone chimneys. Designed in the Tudor style, it is a single storey with a three-window range. The entrance to No. 1 is through a central porch on the east elevation, while No. 2 has a porch added to the rear on the left.
The east elevation displays a stopped label mould over a stone surround with hollow reveals leading to a diagonally boarded door. Two windows have renewed sashes set in stone surrounds beneath label moulds and an eaves band. The hipped roof of the porch connects to the hipped roof of the cottage, both featuring swept eaves. There are two corniced ridge chimneys.
The left return, facing the river, includes two-light stone-mullioned windows with plain renewed sashes in chamfered stone surrounds, also under stopped label moulds. The right return has an offshoot with a new door opening for No. 1, along with two windows that have flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills.
Local climate
Marwood Cottage 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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