Whitfield House is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
Whitfield House
- WRENN ID
- seventh-span-nightshade
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- Whitfield House, Front Street, Wolsingham, DL13 3DF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 074 371
- Coordinates
- 54.72973, -1.88589
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitfield House is a house dating to circa 1750. It is rendered with a stone plinth, painted ashlar dressings, and quoins. The roof is slate, with stone gable copings and brick and stone chimneys. The house has three storeys and six windows. The front door is an 8-panel double door with a patterned overlight, set within a deep panelled reveal and architrave with a hood supported by large brackets. Sash windows with late 18th-century glazing bars are set in plain stone surrounds. A moulded coping sits above a stone parapet on a moulded string, with corner pilasters.
Inside, there are some panelled rooms on the ground and first floors; three rooms contain corner chimneys. The open-well staircase has a ramped moulded handrail with slender turned balusters, alternating between fluted and plain designs, on an open string with block tread ends. Square panelled newels are also present.
Local climate
Whitfield House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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 — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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