Westcott Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1952. Estate house. 1 related planning application.
Westcott Lodge
- WRENN ID
- sleeping-keystone-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 April 1952
- Type
- Estate house
- Address
- Westcott Lodge, 14, Market Place, Bishop Auckland, DL14 7NP
- OS grid reference
- NZ 212 301
- Coordinates
- 54.666, -1.67134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Westcott Lodge, formerly known as No. 4 Castle Square, is an estate house located in Bishop Auckland's bishop's park. It dates from the early 18th century and features later 18th-century alterations, likely incorporating some medieval materials. The building is finished with limewashed render and has a concrete tile roof with a rendered chimney. It is two storeys high and has four windows. An arch on the right side leads to a courtyard. The windows are 20th-century two-light casements with thin projecting sills, and the roof has end ridge chimneys.
Local climate
Westcott Lodge receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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