5, North Bailey is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House. 7 related planning applications.
5, North Bailey
- WRENN ID
- seventh-dormer-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
- 5, North Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3EY
- OS grid reference
- NZ 274 423
- Coordinates
- 54.77501, -1.57446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 5 North Bailey is a house dating from around 1700, constructed of English garden wall bond brick, primarily in a 6 and 1 pattern, with an ashlar plinth and dressings. It features a Welsh slate roof and stands three storeys tall with three windows. The central door, added around 1900, is flanked by side panels and has arcaded overlights topped with a high shell hood. To the left, there is an inserted cambered brick arch above a renewed sash window, while the sash window on the right has a soldier-course lintel. The upper windows are adorned with flat brick arches or soldier-course lintels, and most have projecting stone sills, with several featuring glazing bars, some of which are broad and some have 16 panes. The building has two brick bands at floor level and end chimneys.
Inside, the main staircase is notable for its two slender vase-and-column balusters per tread, which support a ramped handrail. The newels are slim and rectangular, with a round newel at the bottom. There is a second staircase to the right that is similar but has thicker balusters.
Local climate
5, 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2006
- Related listed building consents — 7 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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