Durham Prison Workshops is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Workshop.
Durham Prison Workshops
- WRENN ID
- far-granite-rain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Workshop
- Address
- Durham Prison Workshops, Hallgarth Street, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 277 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77185, -1.56987
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Durham Prison Workshops are medieval farm buildings that have been altered in the 20th century. They are constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings, and feature a roof made of concrete tiles. The building is one storey high with an attic and likely consists of eight bays. There is an inserted double door with an architrave in the third bay, sash windows with bars in the left section, a blocked opening to the right of this part, and a pent extension in front of the right half.
Inside, the building has a steeply-pitched roof supported by arched beams and two levels of purlins, with the upper purlins clasped and the principal rafters reduced or truncated at the collar.
Local climate
Durham Prison Workshops 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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