City Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1971. Public house. 6 related planning applications.
City Hotel
- WRENN ID
- muffled-tower-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1971
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- City Hotel, 84, New Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3AQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 276 423
- Coordinates
- 54.77538, -1.57227
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The City Hotel, originally a house, dates from around 1700 and is now a public house. It is constructed of painted brick and features a Welsh slate roof. The building has three storeys and an attic, with two bays. The left bay contains a half-glazed door, while the right bay has a six-panelled door with an overlight, both set in a plain wood surround. The first bay features a ground-floor sash window and a first-floor tripartite sash window. The second bay has a two-storey canted bay, and the second floor and attic are fitted with tripartite sash windows. Notable architectural details include a dentilled eaves band and an attic floor band, as well as a square-headed ridge dormer. There are no visible chimneys.
Inside, the hotel features a late 17th-century open-well staircase. Although the lowest flight has been altered, it retains a moulded closed string, fat barley-sugar-twist balusters, and a wide, flat handrail with panelled sides. The square newels have moulding that continues with the handrail.
Local climate
City Hotel 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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