Building south of Whinfield Cottage, Durham. Building recording (OASIS ID: vindomor1-370512)

In September 2019 Vindomora Solutions Ltd were commissioned by GAC Planning and Design to undertake a scheme of historic/archaeological building recording on a derelict building south of Whinfield Cottage, Woodland, County Durham. Under the NPPF the derelict building is a non-designated heritage asset, and so the historic building recording project wasrequired to record the structure prior to work commencing. The level of recording identified by the Local Authority was a Level 2 Historic England equivalent survey. The stone-built house was in place by the time the First Edition Ordnance Survey map was produced in 1857 and appears to have been a standard one room up and one room down house, likely used by an agricultural worker family. The 1857 map shows the house to the west and the lean-to building to the east, which was presumably a barn or byre, with a paddock to the southwest. By the time the 1897 Second Edition Ordnance Survey map was produced, the brick extension had been constructed along the north side of the building with external outbuildings to the east against the boundary wall with the road. By 1921 the paddock to the southwest had gone, replaced by a building (presumably a barn), with a small walled garden space added to the southeast frontage of the house. The house was abandoned in the mid 20th century and was then used as a shelter for livestock: by 1978, the roof had collapsed on the lean-to to the east.