White Cross Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. A Georgian House.
White Cross Cottage
- WRENN ID
- low-timber-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- White Cross Cottage, Gainford Road, Piercebridge
- OS grid reference
- NZ 198 162
- Coordinates
- 54.54137, -1.69494
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Cross Cottage is a house dating from the late 18th century and 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble that has been painted white, with a renewed pantiled roof and a brick chimney stack. The cottage is a single-storey, one-bay, square-plan pavilion featuring a plinth and an eaves band. At the front, there is a 2-light window set in a projecting flat-faced surround with a chamfered mullion. The roof is low-pitched and hipped over the front.
At the rear, there is a 2-storey, L-plan house made up of two builds. This section mainly has replaced sash windows with projecting sills, along with a replaced door and 3-light stone-mullioned windows at the re-entrant angle. The rear also features a low-pitched hipped roof with a lateral stack. The cottage is included for its group value with the adjoining farm buildings.
Local climate
White Cross Cottage 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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