Lightfoot House, St Chad's College is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House, college. 2 related planning applications.
Lightfoot House, St Chad's College
- WRENN ID
- bitter-paling-juniper
- 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, college
- Address
- Lightfoot House, St Chad's College, 20, North Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3EW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 420
- Coordinates
- 54.77298, -1.57486
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lightfoot House, part of St Chad's College, is a late 17th-century building that originally served as a house. It is constructed of brick in varying bonds, featuring painted ashlar dressings and a plinth, with the roof not visible. The structure has three storeys and two windows. On the left side, there is a six-panel door set within an architrave that includes a pulvinated frieze and cornice. The windows have flat brick arches and projecting stone sills, with sashes that include glazing bars—16 panes on both the ground and first floors. The second floor has three blocked windows with header-course lintels. Notable exterior details include moulded brick floor-level strings and a dog-tooth eaves cornice, along with a boot-scraper and a coal chute.
Inside, the staircase features a wide grip handrail supported by two turned balusters per tread. The handrail and the panelled dado are ramped, and the tread ends are patterned.
Local climate
Lightfoot House, St Chad's College 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- 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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