32, Silver Street is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1971. House. 2 related planning applications.
32, Silver Street
- WRENN ID
- steep-truss-frost
- 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
- 32, Silver Street, City of Durham, DH1 3RD
- OS grid reference
- NZ 273 424
- Coordinates
- 54.77646, -1.57673
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
32 Silver Street is a house that has been converted into a shop. It dates from the early 17th century, with a top floor added in the 18th century. The building features a timber frame with brick nogging, while the top floor is made of brick. It has a Welsh slate roof with a brick chimney and stands four storeys high with one bay.
The ground floor has an inserted shop front with panelled pilasters that support a fascia. The first floor features a renewed Ipswich-type oriel window, while the jettied second floor has an oriel window on a central bracket, showcasing close studding with diagonal bracing at the corners. The top floor includes one late 19th-century sash window. The left side of the building displays massive corner bracing on the second floor, and many of the timbers have carpenter's marks.
Local climate
32, Silver Street 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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- 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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