The Grove is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. House. 2 related planning applications.
The Grove
- WRENN ID
- frozen-pavement-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Grove, the Street, Bowes
- OS grid reference
- NY 993 135
- Coordinates
- 54.51724, -2.01111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grove is a large house built in the mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the late 19th century. It is constructed from squared rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone-flagged roof along with stone chimney stacks. The house has a double-depth plan and includes a two-storey, two-bay wing attached to the rear of the right side.
The building stands three storeys tall and has five bays, with raised-and-chamfered quoins. The central entrance features a partly-glazed door set within a pedimented doorcase that is flanked by rusticated pilasters. On either side of the entrance are late 19th-century stone canted bay windows with two-pane sashes. The first floor has two-pane sashes, while the upper floor features four-pane sashes, all within moulded surrounds. The roof is a two-span design with coped gables and shaped kneelers, and the end stacks are adorned with top bands, water tables, and ornamental chimney pots.
Inside, there is a cut-string dogleg staircase consisting of four flights plus a landing rail, featuring two turned balusters per tread and a ramped and moulded handrail.
Local climate
The Grove sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,010 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 37 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 — 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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