4, The College is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House. 14 related planning applications.
4, The College
- WRENN ID
- western-ledge-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, The College, City of Durham, DH1 3EH
- OS grid reference
- NZ 273 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77201, -1.57582
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 The College is a barn that has been converted into a house, possibly dating from the late medieval period with a 17th-century conversion. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has been patched in pebble-dash render, topped with a roof of concrete tiles. The building has a narrow frontage located at the angle between the east and south ranges of the College, extending eastwards behind No. 3. It is a single storey with two bays at the front. The central entrance features a half-glazed door within an architrave, with a square overlight above it. To the right, there are 20th-century vehicle doors. The roof is steeply pitched, and the rear elevation includes a small triangular ventilator, now glazed, at the east end. Inside, there is a stop-chamfered tie-beam at the east end, and similar beams throughout have been cut through to provide headroom. The building is included for its group value.
Local climate
4, The College 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 — 14 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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