White Cross Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. Farmhouse.

White Cross Farmhouse

WRENN ID
swift-newel-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1952
Type
Farmhouse
Address
White Cross Farmhouse, Gainford Road, Piercebridge
OS grid reference
NZ 198 162
Coordinates
54.54122, -1.69518
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

White Cross Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the late 18th century, with alterations and additions made in the early to mid-19th century. The building is constructed of squared rubble that has been painted white, topped with a pantiled roof featuring stone-flagged eaves and brick chimney stacks.

The farmhouse has wings added at right angles to the front and rear, creating a cross plan. The garden front is symmetrical and two-storey, consisting of three wide bays. It features a plinth, a ground-floor sill band, first-floor and eaves bands, and flush quoins. There is a replaced door located on the short right return of the projecting central bay. The windows are three-light, set in projecting flat-faced surrounds with chamfered stone mullions. The ground-floor windows have four-pane sashes with lowered sills, while the upper-floor windows are shorter and have two-pane sashes. The low-pitched hipped roof also extends over the central bay, with a central ridge stack that has a stone top band and similar lateral stacks on the rear walls of the wings.

At the rear, there is a far-projecting central bay, a single-storey outshut with a pent roof on the left, and a short range of sheds with boarded doors and a pent roof on the right.

Local climate

White Cross Farmhouse receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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