52, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 October 1962. House. 3 related planning applications.
52, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- odd-cobble-sedge
- 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
- Address
- 52, Old Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3HN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 277 423
- Coordinates
- 54.7754, -1.57036
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 52 Old Elvet is a house that appears to date from the early 19th century but has undergone significant alterations in the 20th century. It is constructed of mottled pinkish brick in Flemish bond, with a stone plinth, alternating quoins, and other stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and features brick chimneys. The building has three storeys and four bays. The second bay contains a six-panel door with an overlight, framed by a modified pilaster-and-entablature surround. The sash windows, which have glazing bars and stone sills (bracketed on the lower floors), are set in architraves on the ground floor, with corniced stone lintels on the first floor and plain lintels above. The upper floors have external louvred shutters. There is a first-floor sill band, a stone modillioned eaves cornice, and a blocking course. The building has end chimneys and a stone-corniced ridge stack.
Inside, the property is reported to have an open well closed-string staircase with a high grip handrail.
Local climate
52, 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.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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