Community Centre is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Community centre. 3 related planning applications.
Community Centre
- WRENN ID
- old-kitchen-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Community centre
- Address
- Community Centre, Alston Road, Middleton in Teesdale, DL12 0UU
- OS grid reference
- NY 944 255
- Coordinates
- 54.62538, -2.08671
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The building is a community centre that was originally a school, constructed in 1861 for the London Lead Company. It is made of roughly-dressed coarse sandstone, featuring an ashlar plinth, quoins, and dressings. The roof is covered with two colors of graduated slates and has stone gable copings.
The structure is one storey high and consists of five bays, with a central projecting bay under a gable. There are set-back one-storey, one-bay porch extensions on both the left and right sides. The pointed-arched boarded doors, which have strap hinges, are located under a gabled hood supported by head-stopped brackets. The central gabled section has a four-light window beneath a relieving arch, while the other bays contain three-light windows with stone mullions and transoms. These windows feature alternate-block jambs and drainage holes in their sloping sills, all set under relieving arches.
The building also has diagonal buttresses and a steeply-gabled bell cote to the left of the front gable. The returns of the building include a large roundel with geometric tracery, with the roundel on the right return being blocked. This is flanked by small two-centred-arched openings. A scrolled wrought-iron finial adorns the bell cote, and the steeply-pitched roofs have overlapping gable copings.
Local climate
Community Centre sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 60 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 39 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2025
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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