Mount Oswald (City Golf Club Clubhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 November 1973. Clubhouse. 5 related planning applications.
Mount Oswald (City Golf Club Clubhouse)
- WRENN ID
- first-merlon-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 November 1973
- Type
- Clubhouse
- Address
- Mount Oswald (City Golf Club Clubhouse), South Road, City of Durham, DH1 3TQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 267 406
- Coordinates
- 54.76017, -1.586
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Mount Oswald, originally a house and now the City Golf Club clubhouse, dates from around 1830 and incorporates an earlier building. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with a Lakeland slate roof. The building is arranged in an L-plan and features two storeys and attics, with a total of 14 bays, of which the central six project. The end bays and each of the central four bays are defined by giant Tuscan pilasters. The windows are sash with glazing bars set in plain reveals, and there is a sill band at the first floor level, along with a band at the first floor level. The top entablature has a prominent cornice below the parapet. The low-pitched roof includes a central inserted attic with two square-headed windows, and there are rendered chimneys at the rear. A Tuscan porch leads to a half-glazed door at the rear.
Local climate
Mount Oswald (City Golf Club Clubhouse) 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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- Related listed building consents — 5 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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