Western House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House.

Western House

WRENN ID
lost-span-falcon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
Western House, 43 and 44, South Green, Staindrop
OS grid reference
NZ 124 205
Coordinates
54.57962, -1.8084
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Western House is a pair of houses with a former shop, dating from the early 19th century. They are constructed from coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings. The roof of No. 43 is covered with concrete tiles, while No. 44 features pantiles and stone-flagged eaves, both topped with stone gable coping and rendered chimneys. The building stands two storeys high and has four wide bays.

Each house has plain stone surrounds around the central door. The door for No. 43, located on the left, is a four-panelled design with an overlight, while the door for No. 44 has been renewed. The shop in the left bay of No. 44 features a projecting square bay window with four rows of five panes beneath a corniced fascia, along with a 20th-century door and overlight framed by slender pilasters under a cornice. There is also a canted bay window to the right of No. 44. The other windows are late 19th-century sashes, each with flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The roof displays left gable coping on a moulded kneeler, and there is a banded ridge chimney on the left side of each house.

Local climate

Western House receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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