High West Wood, with Attached Outbuildings on West is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. House, formerly an inn. 3 related planning applications.
High West Wood, with Attached Outbuildings on West
- WRENN ID
- rusted-footing-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- House, formerly an inn
- Address
- High West Wood, with Attached Outbuildings on West, DL12 9RB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 035 157
- Coordinates
- 54.53701, -1.94604
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
High West Wood is a house, formerly an inn, with attached outbuildings, dated 1753, featuring the initials J:J on the door lintel. The house incorporates older fabric and is constructed of roughly-squared stone, with some areas of older rubble in the lower walls. The outbuildings are made of rubble and date from the 18th century or early 19th century. Both the house and outbuildings have graduated stone slate roofs.
The house is two storeys high with two bays. It has a central renewed door set in a chamfered stone surround and four-pane casement windows that mimic sash windows. There are end stacks on either side. The outbuilding range to the left is also two storeys and has four irregular bays. It features two boarded doors and a boarded pitching door in irregular-block surrounds, along with two part-slatted windows. The left return of the outbuilding shows two raking buttresses.
In the 19th century, the house was known as the Reservoir Inn, as indicated on the first edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch to 1-mile map. At the time of the survey, the outbuildings were in poor condition.
Local climate
High West Wood, with Attached Outbuildings on West 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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- Related listed building consents — 3 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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