38, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House. 5 related planning applications.
38, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- strange-vault-blackthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 38, Old Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3HN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 278 423
- Coordinates
- 54.77504, -1.56869
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a mid-18th century house, altered and extended upwards in the early 19th century. It is located in Durham and Framwellgate. The house is constructed of mottled reddish brick in an English garden wall bond pattern (three bricks long, one brick high) with a Welsh slate roof. It has four storeys and two bays. To the left is a six-panel door set in an architrave, topped with a bracketed cornice hood. The windows are 12-pane sashes, each set beneath a soldier arch. Horizontal bands of bricks mark each floor level. No chimneys are visible externally.
The interior is reported to contain an open-string dogleg staircase with a moulded handrail consisting of two column-and-vase balusters per tread. This feature was documented by F.F. Johnson in Historic Staircases of Durham City Durham in 1970.
Local climate
38, Old Elvet 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2012
- 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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