Low Barmston Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Sunderland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 July 1985. Farmhouse.

Low Barmston Farmhouse

WRENN ID
buried-railing-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sunderland
Constituency
Washington and Gateshead South MP: Mrs Sharon Hodgson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 July 1985
Type
Farmhouse
OS grid reference
NZ 336 567
Coordinates
54.90463, -1.4767
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Low Barmston Farmhouse is a large farmhouse built around 1840. It is constructed from snecked rubble sandstone and features a plinth, large quoins, and crow-stepped gable ends, with some ashlar dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and includes corniced ashlar stacks. The building has an irregular plan and is designed in a baronial style, standing two storeys high with three bays, where the left bay is set back. The two gabled right bays project, with the central bay being half-octagonal on the first floor, corbelled out above and sloped out below. The farmhouse has sash windows with glazing bars set in tooled stone surrounds. The entrance features a four-panelled door within a corniced surround, which is raised in the centre to accommodate blank shields. An L-shaped wing extends forward from the left bay and is connected by a yard wall to a lean-to in the inner return angle. There are small round-headed windows in the one-storey part and in the central gable end. The garden front has three bays, with a blank centre on the first floor.

Local climate

Low Barmston Farmhouse receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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