Numbers 2 and 3 and Range of Sheds to Left Syke House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Terrace of houses.
Numbers 2 and 3 and Range of Sheds to Left Syke House
- WRENN ID
- idle-jamb-ebony
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Terrace of houses
- Address
- Numbers 2 and 3 and Range of Sheds to Left Syke House, 1, Syke Cottages, Mickleton
- OS grid reference
- NY 966 237
- Coordinates
- 54.60895, -2.05294
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Numbers 2 and 3, along with a range of sheds to the left, form a terrace of three houses attached to Syke House, which is dated 1790 on its door lintel and has been altered in the 19th century. The sheds date from the mid-19th century. The buildings are constructed from tooled squared sandstone. Syke House has a stone-flagged roof with an imitation-slate rear pitch, while Numbers 2 and 3 feature large purple slates and stone chimney stacks, with Syke House positioned to the right.
The terrace is two storeys high, with each house having two bays and flush alternating quoins. Syke House has a four-panel door in the left bay, set in a flush surround with a lintel inscribed with "J & M.D. 1790" (for John and Mary Dent). To the right, there is a replaced casement window with a flush lintel that is grooved to imitate a flat arch, and above it is an identical window and lintel. Numbers 2 and 3 have paired four-panel doors with flush tooled-and-margined surrounds, flanked by replaced four-pane sash windows, with two identical windows above. The terrace has a continuous steeply-pitched roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers, and the coping is present at the junction between Numbers 2 and 3. The end and ridge stacks feature top ledges and water tables.
The one-storey, four-bay range of sheds has Dutch and boarded doors and a monopitch roof that slopes to the rear. The right return of Syke House has a low plinth and a small fixed light in the gable. The rear of Syke House includes some throughstones and scattered openings, including two small 12-pane sash windows.
Local climate
Numbers 2 and 3 and Range of Sheds to Left Syke House sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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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