Masters House Incorporating Clergy Flats is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 February 1952. House.

Masters House Incorporating Clergy Flats

WRENN ID
waiting-corner-cobweb
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 February 1952
Type
House
Address
Masters House Incorporating Clergy Flats, A 181, Shincliffe
OS grid reference
NZ 308 415
Coordinates
54.76796, -1.5217
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Master's House, now incorporating Clergy Flats, is a house that dates back to 1832. It is built from dressed sandstone and features Welsh slate roofs, showcasing a classical style. The building has two storeys and consists of six bays, with the left bay projecting at both the front and rear.

An added flat-roofed porch at the front includes a glazed door with a three-pane overlight, along with three 12-pane sash windows. To the right side, there is a panelled door with a six-pane overlight. The remaining windows are 12-pane sashes, some of which have been replaced, set in plain square-cut openings with flush lintels and projecting sills.

Above, a flat-coped parapet conceals a low-pitched hipped roof that has four transverse ridge stacks. The left return of the building also has a similar four-bay arrangement. At the rear, there are scattered sashes, including two large 24-pane stair windows.

Local climate

Masters House Incorporating Clergy Flats receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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