28, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1971. A C18 House.
28, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- quiet-slate-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 28, Old Elvet, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 279 422
- Coordinates
- 54.77459, -1.56751
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 28 Old Elvet is a house dating from the late 18th century, featuring some alterations. The exterior is finished in stucco, with a plinth and decorative bands. It has a Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys. The building is two storeys high and has two wide bays. The entrance consists of a four-panel door set within an architrave, topped by a margined overlight and a bracketed hood. There are late 19th-century tripartite sash windows in their original openings, complete with stone sills. The eaves are adorned with a corbel table from the late 19th century. The right side has coping and a kneeler, along with chimneys at both the end and rear of the house.
Local climate
28, Old 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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