20, New Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House.
20, New Elvet
- WRENN ID
- buried-spindle-sparrow
- 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
- 20, New Elvet, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 276 422
- Coordinates
- 54.7744, -1.57152
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 New Elvet is a house dating from the mid-18th century. It features painted render with an ashlar plinth, painted ashlar dressings, and chamfered quoins. The roof is made of graduated Lakeland slate and has rendered chimneys. The building stands three storeys high and has five bays. The central door, which has been renewed, is set within an architrave and is topped by a bracketed dentilled pediment. The sash windows, which include glazing bars, are adorned with architraves and projecting stone sills. A dentilled wooden gutter cornice completes the exterior.
Local climate
20, New Elvet 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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