Lanchester House with Walls in Front is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1975. House. 1 related planning application.

Lanchester House with Walls in Front

WRENN ID
iron-screen-ivory
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
North Durham MP: Luke Akehurst (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 August 1975
Type
House
Address
Lanchester House with Walls in Front, 35, Front Street, DH7 0HT
OS grid reference
NZ 165 475
Coordinates
54.82294, -1.74467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lanchester House, located on Front Street in Lanchester, is a house with area walls dating from the second quarter of the 18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. The house features painted incised stucco with painted ashlar dressings, a plinth, and quoins. The return gables are rendered on sandstone rubble, and the roof is stone-flagged with stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys.

The house is two storeys high and has three bays. There are steps leading up to a central door, which has three vertical panels and an overlight, all set in a plain stone surround with corner blocks and a plain hood. The flanking canted bays and first-floor windows have margined sashes in plain stone surrounds. The quoins project, and there are stone gutter brackets. The roof features end coping on moulded kneelers and end chimneys with cornices on plinths. At the rear, there is a round-headed stair window with intersecting glazing bars, and an attic window with eight horizontal panes, one of which opens, and broad glazing bars.

The dwarf walls in front of the house have overhanging chamfered coping.

Local climate

Lanchester House with Walls in Front receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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 — 1 transaction since 2006
  • 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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