Low Skerningham is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Cottage, stable. 3 related planning applications.

Low Skerningham

WRENN ID
forgotten-vestry-autumn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Darlington
Constituency
Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 January 1988
Type
Cottage, stable
Address
Low Skerningham, Barmpton, DL1 3JA
OS grid reference
NZ 307 188
Coordinates
54.56413, -1.52546
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Skerningham is a late 18th and early 19th century combined cottage and stable, with an added wash-house and privy. The building is constructed of painted brick, with some rubble walling in the stable section, and has pantiled roofs and old brick chimney stacks. It is a single-storey linear range. The cottage section to the left has four 12-pane horizontal-sliding sash windows and a partly-glazed door to the right. The stable, now used for storage, features ventilation holes in a chequerboard pattern and a replaced boarded door. The building has stepped eaves and a continuous steeply-pitched roof with stacks at the left end and along the ridge. A wash-house is located on the left return of the cottage, featuring a Dutch door and a steeply-pitched roof with a ridge stack. Attached to the wash-house is a privy with a boarded door and a lean-to roof. A ruinous two-bay cart shed at the centre of the rear is not of architectural interest.

Local climate

Low Skerningham receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 91% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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 — 11 transactions since 2007
  • 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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