Old Toms is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House, shop. 2 related planning applications.
Old Toms
- WRENN ID
- gilded-cupola-ebony
- 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, shop
- Address
- Old Toms, Unit 33, the Riverwalk, City of Durham, DH1 4SL
- OS grid reference
- NZ 271 424
- Coordinates
- 54.77636, -1.57875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Old Toms is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates back to the 17th century and has undergone some alterations. The ground floor is made of sandstone rubble, while the upper part features a timber frame with rendered nogging. The roof is covered with Welsh slate and includes a rendered chimney.
The building stands two storeys high and has three bays. There are thin wooden lintels above a renewed central door and a late 19th-century sash window on the left. To the right, there is a plain shop window with a cornice above it. On the first floor, there are two similar sash windows and a close-studded centre panel, with some timbers having been renewed. The steeply-pitched roof is topped with a tall transverse chimney.
Local climate
Old Toms 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 sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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