The Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1952. House. 1 related planning application.
The Cottage
- WRENN ID
- graven-shingle-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Darlington MP: Lola McEvoy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Cottage, 41, Church View, Heighington, DL5 6PN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 249 224
- Coordinates
- 54.59648, -1.61475
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Cottage is a house dating from the mid to late 17th century, with window alterations from the late 18th to early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed rubble, featuring a replaced pantiled roof and a brick chimney stack. The building has two storeys and three windows. It has a low plinth and alternating quoins on the left side. There is a replaced door located under a hoodmould on the right. The carved stone door surround includes sunk rectangular strips and a moulded inner left edge with a run-out stop; however, the right jamb and part of the hoodmould are missing. To the left of the door, there are two 16-pane sash windows in moulded surrounds with projecting sills. Above the door, there is a narrow 8-pane sash, and two additional 16-pane sashes to the left, all in identical surrounds. The steeply-pitched roof has slightly-swept eaves, a coped left gable, and a shaped kneeler. The left end stack has been rebuilt. Inside, the ground-floor room features a moulded, square stone fireplace that is partly obscured by an early 20th-century wood surround, and there is a small round-arched niche to the left of the fireplace, which may have been a former bread oven.
Local climate
The Cottage receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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