Bede Rest is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 3 related planning applications.
Bede Rest
- WRENN ID
- north-pedestal-umber
- 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
- House
- Address
- Bede Rest, Beech Crest, City of Durham, DH1 4QF
- OS grid reference
- NZ 266 420
- Coordinates
- 54.77258, -1.58654
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bede Rest is a house built in 1922 for the Durham Miners Association for Peter Lee. It features pebble-dash render and a Welsh slate roof, with rendered chimney stacks and pierced curved red pots. The building has two storeys and three bays, with a central projecting under gable. There is a half-glazed door to the right of the central bay, with a square window to the left and a Venetian window above. The flanking bays have canted ground-floor bay windows with prominent cornices beneath paired casements. All windows include upper glazing bars. The hipped roof has chimneys on the side slopes. This house is included for its historical interest.
Local climate
Bede Rest 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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