29, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1971. House.

29, Old Elvet

WRENN ID
plain-stone-moth
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
29, Old Elvet, City of Durham
OS grid reference
NZ 279 422
Coordinates
54.77463, -1.56763
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Number 29 Old Elvet is a house from the early to mid-19th century. It features incised stucco with a plinth and has a Welsh slate roof with a brick stack. The building stands three storeys high and has one bay. On the right side, there is a six-panel door set in an architrave, topped with a radial fanlight and an open pediment. The ground floor has an early 20th-century tripartite sash window in an architrave, while the upper windows are 12-pane sashes with thinly-chamfered reveals. The left end stack has been truncated.

Local climate

29, 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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