(Staindrop House Rest Home) and Wall with Gateway Attached is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House, rest home. 5 related planning applications.
(Staindrop House Rest Home) and Wall with Gateway Attached
- WRENN ID
- still-stone-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, rest home
- Address
- (Staindrop House Rest Home) and Wall with Gateway Attached, Front Street, DL2 3NH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 129 205
- Coordinates
- 54.58044, -1.80139
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house, now a private rest home, with an attached wall and gateway, likely dating from the early 18th century with alterations in the later 18th century. The front is lime-washed with painted ashlar dressings, while the right return and rear are of rubble construction with coursed squared sandstone in the rear wing. It has a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings and ashlar chimneys. The wall attached to the right has ashlar dressings and coping.
The house is three and a half storeys, with five bays, and a left extension of one and two bays respectively. The wall is set back to the right, stopping at the height of the first-floor window heads. The windows in the three-storey part are grouped 2:2:1. A Tudor-arched door with six panels sits in a hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched surround within the fourth bay. Similar-style architraves frame the sash windows, with glazing bars; one window is within a blocked doorway, and another is in a canted bay with a higher central window and flat roof. The top windows are arranged 3 over 3 panes. The roof features moulded kneelers and banded end and central chimneys. The left extension has a boarded door and a keyed slatted opening, below a flat stone coping; the roof is not visible.
The attached wall to the right contains a high, elliptical vehicle arch with voussoirs.
The rear elevation displays a gabled two-storey central wing, featuring external steps leading to a first-floor French window within a flat Tudor-arched plain stone surround. Hollow-chamfered surrounds, similar to those on the front elevation, are present on the left and in the right three-storey wing. A single-storey pent addition abuts a gabled projection.
The interior includes a panelled room dating from the early 18th century in the gabled wing, and a staircase with a ramped grip handrail on turned balusters.
Local climate
(Staindrop House Rest Home) and Wall with Gateway Attached 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 5 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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