Old Bank House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House. 1 related planning application.

Old Bank House

WRENN ID
fading-trefoil-crag
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
House
Address
Old Bank House, 43, Front Street, Wolsingham, DL13 3DQ
OS grid reference
NZ 073 372
Coordinates
54.7298, -1.88737
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Old Bank House is a house dating from the 17th century, with alterations and additions from the 19th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and quoins, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring red and yellow brick chimneys and gable copings. The building has a U-shaped plan with ranges that run parallel to the street and stands three storeys tall, with one wide bay on the street elevation.

The windows are single-chamfered and placed irregularly, featuring three lights on the ground floor and two on the upper floors. The lower two floors have plain stone surrounds with fixed lights, while the top floor has horizontal sliding sash windows. There is a small square window on the right side of the ground floor that is blocked. The left chimney is an external stack, and the roof copings rest on curved kneelers, although the rear one is missing.

The left return of the building includes a two-storey section that completes the range between the gabled bays. It features central paired half-glazed doors in raised stone surrounds, with the left door having a flat Tudor arch. The left gable has 19th-century label moulds over two-light windows, while the right gable has corbels at the first-floor level that support the chimney stack, with a small square window beneath in a stone surround. Similarly-shaped windows under label moulds are located on each upper floor to the right of the stack. The U-shaped roof is pent over the central entrance bay.

Inside, there is a 4-centred-arched chamfered stone fire-arch in the front first-floor room.

Local climate

Old Bank House receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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