Park Shops is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Shop.

Park Shops

WRENN ID
stranded-bailey-raven
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Shop
Address
Park Shops, A689, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 977 412
Coordinates
54.7664, -2.03591
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Park Shops is a miner's lodging shop that has been converted into a haystore. It dates from the mid-19th century and is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The building has two storeys and features four windows. There are double boarded doors situated between each pair of ground-floor windows, with flat stone lintels above the doors and boarded windows, which have projecting stone sills. Each unglazed window has one outward-opening boarded shutter. The low-pitched roof is adorned with three ridge chimneys. This building is included for its historic interest.

Local climate

Park Shops receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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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