East Farmhouse and Wall Attached to South is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. Farmhouse.
East Farmhouse and Wall Attached to South
- WRENN ID
- muted-corner-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Farmhouse
- OS grid reference
- NZ 119 188
- Coordinates
- 54.56477, -1.81594
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
East Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from the early 18th century, with some additions and alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble with dressed quoins and features a concrete-tiled roof with brick and stone stacks. The original structure included a single-storey cottage attached to the right, which was raised in the mid-19th century to create a two-storey, four-bay front.
The front has a part-glazed door in the second bay from the left, framed by an eared and shouldered architrave. To the left, there is a canted bay window, while to the right, there is a blocked two-light mullioned window and two 12-pane sash windows. On the first floor, there is a central blocked two-light mullioned window, with a 12-pane sash and a 4-pane sash to the left, and two 12-pane sashes to the right. The rear features a gabled wing and a late 19th-century outshut. The steeply-pitched roof has coped gables, a corniced left gable, and ridge stacks, with the right gable stack rebuilt in brick.
Inside, there is a mid-18th-century two-flight dogleg staircase and a first-floor landing rail with turned balusters. Additionally, two sculptural fragments, including a shield and a datestone inscribed with the year 1697, are said to have come from Witton Castle in County Durham and are built into the wall attached to the left of the farmhouse. There are also farm buildings attached to the right return and detached farm buildings to the rear, which are not of special interest.
Local climate
East Farmhouse and Wall Attached to South receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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