High Wooley Farmhouse and Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. Farmhouse, cottage. 3 related planning applications.

High Wooley Farmhouse and Cottage

WRENN ID
young-gateway-magpie
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1987
Type
Farmhouse, cottage
Address
High Wooley Farmhouse and Cottage, Wolsingham Road, Brancepeth, DL15 9AP
OS grid reference
NZ 177 391
Coordinates
54.74707, -1.72616
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

High Wooley Farmhouse and Cottage comprise an early 18th-century farmhouse with an adjoining cottage, likely dating to the early 19th century. The farmhouse is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with an asbestos tile roof, while the cottage has a Welsh slate roof. Large 19th-century cream-brick chimney stacks are a prominent feature.

The farmhouse is two storeys and an attic, with three bays. It features squared alternating quoins. The front door has been replaced and is set within a lobed, bolection-moulded surround. Windows are a mix of replaced sashes and casements, set in openings dating to the 19th and 20th centuries. A boarded opening is visible under the eaves. The steeply pitched roof has swept eaves and raised verges, punctuated by tall end stacks. Two pigeon-loft openings, complete with stone ledges, are set into the gable of the right return. A single-storey wing on the right return of the farmhouse has a boarded door and a steeply pitched roof. A narrow, two-storey stair wing, concealed under a pent roof, extends from the center rear of the farmhouse.

The lower, two-storey, four-bay cottage has a replaced door set behind a late 20th-century, off-centre brick porch. It has replaced sashes with flush lintels and projecting sills, and two blocked windows on the first floor. A pitched roof finishes the cottage, with a stack at the left end. A similar two-storey gabled wing is attached to the rear of the cottage.

Local climate

High Wooley Farmhouse and Cottage receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
  • 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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