Kirby House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. House. 2 related planning applications.
Kirby House
- WRENN ID
- gaunt-string-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- House
- Address
- Kirby House, 27, Thorngate, Barnard Castle, DL12 8QB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 160
- Coordinates
- 54.53973, -1.92557
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Kirby House is a house, likely originally a weaver's dwelling, probably dating from the early 18th century. It was restored in 1981 for the Teesdale Buildings Preservation Trust. The house is constructed of coursed squared stone with quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a roof of stone slates with a stone ridge, gable copings, and chimneys. It is three storeys high, with a three-window front. The central ground-floor entrance is a renewed six-panel door with a three-pane overlight, set in a plain stone surround. The ground floor originally had two inserted doors, which have since been replaced by wide windows with wood mullions and paired 12-pane sashes in plain stone surrounds. The first-floor windows are similar, with paired 16-pane sashes, and the second floor has a central fixed light of nine panes, with a central opening pane, and flanking paired sashes. The roof has stone gable copings on cyma-moulded kneelers. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Kirby House receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 2014
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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