Graduate Society Offices is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House.
Graduate Society Offices
- WRENN ID
- odd-clay-lake
- 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
- Graduate Society Offices, 34, Old Elvet, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 278 423
- Coordinates
- 54.77494, -1.56827
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Graduate Society Offices is a house dating from the early to mid-18th century, with some alterations. It is constructed of mottled red brick in English garden wall bond and features a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys and rendered copings, along with prominent stone kneelers. The building has three storeys and an attic, with four windows. On the right side, there is a four-panel door with an overlight framed by a wooden architrave. The windows are late 18th-century sashes with lost bars, set in wide boxes, and have segmental arches and stone sills. There are decorative floor bands made of four and three bricks. The roof was raised in the mid-19th century, and four large flat-headed half-dormers were added. The building has end chimneys.
Inside, it is reported to have an open-string dogleg staircase with a ramped handrail supported by two turned balusters per tread, along with a ramped, panelled dado.
Local climate
Graduate Society Offices 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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