Summerhouse 180 Metres South East of Woden Croft is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse 180 Metres South East of Woden Croft
- WRENN ID
- quiet-column-woodpecker
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Summerhouse
- OS grid reference
- NZ 009 206
- Coordinates
- 54.58119, -1.98695
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The summerhouse, located 180 metres southeast of Woden Croft, dates from the early 19th century and is built from snecked, squared rubble with stone-flagged roofs. It features a square-plan central block with set-back flanking wings, designed in the Gothick style.
The two-storey, one-bay central block has flush quoins and a pointed-arched opening with flush voussoirs. Above the opening is a wall sundial, flanked by square stone panels with incised crosses. The sundial has a moulded sill and is inscribed with a message from Thomas Branson, expressing gratitude for the teaching he received at Woden Croft Lodge between 1807 and 1815, and it reads: "Disce bene vivere et mori A THOMAS BRANSOM hoc SOLARIUM, relictum est Gratitudinis in memoria pro doctrina accepta apud Woden Croft Lodge ab AD 1807 utque 1815" (Learn to live and die well. This sundial was given by Thomas Branson in grateful memory of the teaching received at Woden Croft Lodge from 1807 to 1815). The central block has a low-pitched pyramidal roof.
The wings of the summerhouse also have flush quoins and feature single window openings with flush lintels and projecting sills. Flat-coped parapets with end blocks conceal lean-to roofs that slope down to the rear. This summerhouse shares a similar design and date with another example known as Monks House.
Local climate
Summerhouse 180 Metres South East of Woden Croft sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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