38, North Bailey is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House. 3 related planning applications.
38, North Bailey
- WRENN ID
- grim-casement-spindle
- 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
- 38, North Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3EU
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 422
- Coordinates
- 54.77403, -1.57483
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 38 North Bailey is a house, now serving as a University department, dating from around 1700 with alterations from the 18th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of brick in varying bonds, featuring ashlar quoins and painted ashlar dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof and brick chimneys topped with ashlar copings. The house is three storeys high and has three windows on the front facade.
The entrance features a six-panel door with a three-paned overlight set in an architrave between the second and third windows. The ground floor sashes have header-course lintels and projecting stone sills, while the first floor has flat brick arches and wrought iron balconies for three French windows, all with glazing bars. The second floor sashes also have header-course lintels and glazing bars. To the left of the door, there are three blocked windows with header-course lintels, and five blocked first floor windows with ashlar lintels. The building has two brick bands at floor level. The steeply-pitched roof includes end chimneys and a boot-scraper recess beside the door. At the rear, there are oeuils-de-boeuf windows on two floors.
Inside, the property features a panelled dado in the open well of the closed-string staircase, with a handrail that has deep panelled sides and a flat top, along with fat barley-sugar twist balusters and a secondary balustrade in front of the rear window. Throughout the house, there are two-panelled doors and thin beaded architraves on the top floor.
Local climate
38, North Bailey 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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