Little Burdon Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Darlington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 January 1988. Cottage.
Little Burdon Cottage
- WRENN ID
- forgotten-turret-sorrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Darlington
- Constituency
- Stockton West MP: Matt Vickers (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 January 1988
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Little Burdon Cottage, Stockton Road, Morton Palms
- OS grid reference
- NZ 328 163
- Coordinates
- 54.54173, -1.4934
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Little Burdon Cottage is a former farmhouse that has been converted into a cottage. It dates from the late 17th century and has undergone later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of hand-made brick, with some areas rendered and painted on the front and right side. The roofs are primarily covered with pantiles, while the rear wing features ridged concrete tiles. The cottage has been fitted with rebuilt brick chimney stacks.
The main block of the cottage follows a hearth-passage plan and is two stories high. It has four openings on the ground floor and three on the first floor. Notable decorative features include a dentilled band between the storeys, two raised lozenges on the first floor, and cogged eaves. The doorway on the left side leading into the hearth passage has a basket-arched head, raised keystone, and impost blocks, with a similar doorway located at the rear. Other openings have been altered, including a later doorway on the right flanked by six-pane sash windows, a 24-pane horizontal-sliding sash above, and two late 20th-century casements. The steeply-pitched roof has been renewed and is set below the line of the original roof, with chimney stacks flanking the hearth passage and a stepped external chimney projecting on the right side.
To the left, there is a single-storey, two-bay wing with altered door and window openings, stepped eaves bands, and a steeply-pitched roof. At the rear of the main block, there is a projecting two-storey stair bay that features a blocked two-light wood-mullioned window. The two-storey, four-bay rear wing consists of two builds and has altered openings along with a steeply-pitched roof.
Local climate
Little Burdon Cottage receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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