Old Cottage and Farmbuildings to West of Park House Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1987. Cottage, farm buildings.
Old Cottage and Farmbuildings to West of Park House Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- nether-pavement-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1987
- Type
- Cottage, farm buildings
- Address
- Old Cottage and Farmbuildings to West of Park House Farmhouse, Barningham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 084 094
- Coordinates
- 54.48068, -1.87107
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Cottage and farm buildings to the west of Park House Farmhouse date from the late 18th century and are arranged around a foldyard. The cottage is part of a former farmhouse that was destroyed by fire around 1930. The buildings are constructed of coursed rubble with roughly-cut quoins and cut dressings, featuring graduated stone slate roofs, except for a 20th-century metal sheet roof on the lean-to at the east end of the cottage and pantiles on the cottage privy. The buildings surround a small rectangular yard that opens to the south, with the cottage forming the cross-wing at the south end of the east range.
The cottage is two storeys high and has two bays. It features a central boarded door, an inserted pitching door above to the left, and a blocked stone-surround window above to the right. To the right, there is an attached pent privy. The left gable is coped with moulded kneelers, and there is a stack at the right end. The left return shows a blocked first-floor door and a partially blocked segmental arch in the rear outshut.
The farm buildings facing the yard include a barn on the west side, which has a central stable door and two levels of slit vents, with the lower level blocked. The barn has coped gables on moulded kneelers. The single-storey north range has two stable doors, while the single-storey east range has two boarded doors. The barn has a similar rear elevation. The north end of the east range features a boarded door and a stone-surround window under a coped gable with moulded kneeler. There are also two boarded doors at the rear of the east range. The lean-to at the east end of the cottage, which is part of the former farmhouse, has stone-surround windows. Most doors are set in heavy alternating-block surrounds.
The 20th-century cowsheds attached to the south end of the barn are not of special interest.
Local climate
Old Cottage and Farmbuildings to West of Park House Farmhouse 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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