Barn, Byres, Hemmels, Loose Boxes and Gin Gang to North of Oxclose Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Barn and farm buildings.
Barn, Byres, Hemmels, Loose Boxes and Gin Gang to North of Oxclose Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- north-truss-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- Barn and farm buildings
- Address
- Barn, Byres, Hemmels, Loose Boxes and Gin Gang to North of Oxclose Farmhouse, A690, Greater Willington
- OS grid reference
- NZ 220 366
- Coordinates
- 54.72474, -1.65988
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building complex includes a barn, byres, hemmels, loose boxes, and a gin gang, located to the north of Oxclose Farmhouse. It was constructed in the mid-19th century and features coursed sandstone rubble with stock brick or ashlar dressings. The gin gang has red brick dressings, while the roofs are covered with Welsh slate, pantiles, and some renewed French tiles, topped with yellow ridge tiles and a stone finial. The barn roof is made of concrete tiles. The layout is square, with the gin gang positioned to the north of the main barn and a central range attached to the north barn. The south byre extends beyond the square at the southeast corner.
The gin gang is supported by five square piers made of stone and brick, which hold up a polygonal roof with a hat-shaped finial. The adjoining two-storey barn features a Dutch door on the left and three elliptical cart entrances on the right, each with keyed brick arches on ashlar piers. Above these entrances are three loft openings, which are partly hit-and-miss and partly glazed, with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The high barn on the right has two tall cart entrances with elliptical brick arches over boarded double doors and small square vents at the eaves. The byre on the left has a boarded double door leading to the hay-room and three lights that are partly glazed and partly hit-and-miss, set in ashlar surrounds. The south byre, which completes the square, includes a boarded door, double doors, and two Dutch doors, along with renewed glazing in seven windows and ridge pot ventilators.
Inside the courtyard, there is a hemmel attached to the barn featuring a low segmental brick arch over a water trough, along with two pig-sties at the south end that have blocked feeding openings. The interior of the east range has wood-slatted partitions and triangular-plan mangers.
Local climate
Barn, Byres, Hemmels, Loose Boxes and Gin Gang to North of Oxclose Farmhouse 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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