21, Elvet Bridge is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House, shop. 4 related planning applications.
21, Elvet Bridge
- WRENN ID
- mired-hall-wax
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- House, shop
- Address
- 21, Elvet Bridge, City of Durham, DH1 3AA
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 424
- Coordinates
- 54.77614, -1.57436
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21 Elvet Bridge is a house that now functions as a house and shop. It incorporates part of Elvet Bridge in its sub-basement, which may date back to the medieval period. The main part of the building is from the late 18th century or early 19th century, while the shop section was added around 1900. The house is constructed of English bond brick with painted ashlar dressings and features a Welsh slate roof with stone gable copings on moulded kneelers.
The building has two storeys and three wide bays. The shop has two recessed entrances flanked by slender pilasters leading to canted windows, with faceted stallrisers and a bracketed, modillioned cornice above. To the right, there is a vehicle entrance with slender pilasters and an arch under an elliptical brick arch. The first-floor windows have wedge stone lintels and projecting stone sills, with a casement window on the left and a sash window with glazing bars on the right, along with a central oriel window.
There is an ashlar-corniced chimney on the left end, while the massive rendered chimney on the right is likely the external stack of the house to the right. The sub-basement is reported to be made of ashlar and features one transverse arch.
Local climate
21, Elvet Bridge 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 — 4 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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