Three Tuns Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.
Three Tuns Hotel
- WRENN ID
- long-gargoyle-thyme
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Three Tuns Hotel, New Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3AQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 276 422
- Coordinates
- 54.77484, -1.5717
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Three Tuns Hotel is a building that originally consisted of three houses, dating from the late 18th century, which incorporates an earlier structure. It features painted incised stucco with a painted ashlar plinth and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys. The hotel stands three storeys high and has five bays. The entrance on the left is a half-glazed double door with side and overlights, framed by a doorcase with narrow fluted pilasters and an entablature. There is a blocked door in the third bay, set within a Tuscan doorcase. Above the doors are oriel windows with cornices and low-pitched hipped roofs, and a similar design is applied to a two-storey canted bay window in the fifth bay. The other windows are late 19th-century sashes with projecting stone sills. The building has transverse ridge chimneys in the second bay and to the left of the fifth bay, with additional chimneys located in front of the ridge in the centre and on the rear slope in the third bay.
Inside, the principal stair features an open-string design with delicately carved tread-ends, slender turned balusters supporting a ramped handrail, and a wide wreath and curtail, along with a ramped panelled dado. There is a second stair on the upper floors to the right, which has a closed string and a boarded-over balustrade, as well as a central early 19th-century stair on the upper floors. The wall between the fourth and fifth bays has a vertical studded timber frame. The entrance hall includes an 18th-century chimney piece with a cornice.
Local climate
Three Tuns Hotel receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% 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 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- 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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