Eggleston Baptist Church is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 November 1987. Baptist Chapel. 2 related planning applications.
Eggleston Baptist Church
- WRENN ID
- pale-pewter-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 November 1987
- Type
- Baptist Chapel
- Address
- Eggleston Baptist Church, B6282, DL12 0BD
- OS grid reference
- NY 983 245
- Coordinates
- 54.61628, -2.02678
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Baptist Chapel, dated 1872 above the door, was built in the 19th century. It is constructed of rock-faced coursed squared sandstone, with thinner courses towards the top, and has ashlar dressings. The roof is of Welsh slate, with rendered and stone chimneys. The building is single-storied and has five bays, with the left bay lower than the others.
A flight of steps leads to a central double door constructed of six panels, with a stone-bracketed gabled hood supported on painted pilasters. Steps also lead to six-panel doors with three-pane overlights at each end bay. An inscribed lintel above the left door and the inscription “BRITISH WORKMAN” above the right door are present. Flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills feature on the twelve-pane sashes that flank the central door. The roof has three corniced chimneys with steeply-sloped rendered tops at each end of the main and left roof slopes. The “BRITISH WORKMAN” inscription refers to a reading room provided for the workers of Eggleston Street Mill, and there is a connection with the journal British Workman, published between 1855 and 1921, which promoted self-help and education.
Local climate
Eggleston Baptist Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 2011
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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