26a and 27, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1962. House and cottage. 2 related planning applications.
26a and 27, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- spare-spandrel-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 October 1962
- Type
- House and cottage
- Address
- 26a and 27, Old Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3HN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 279 422
- Coordinates
- 54.77454, -1.56745
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century house and cottage, altered in the 20th century. The front is pebbledash on a plinth, with a Welsh slate roof. The building is two storeys high with two narrow and two wide bays. Number 26A has a 20th-century door on the left side, and sash windows with 12 panes on the ground floor and 9 panes on the first. Number 27 has a 20th-century door with a margined overlight in an architrave, topped with a bracketed cornice hood. It also has 16-pane sash windows with stone sills. A flagpole is attached to the first floor centre of the building. Other details include swept eaves and a rebuilt stack. The building is included on the list for its group value.
Local climate
26a and 27, Old Elvet 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2017
- 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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