24-34, Thorngate is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. Flats. 8 related planning applications.
24-34, Thorngate
- WRENN ID
- pale-wattle-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- Flats
- Address
- 24-34, Thorngate, Barnard Castle, DL12 8QB
- OS grid reference
- NZ 049 160
- Coordinates
- 54.5395, -1.92535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This building, known as Nos. 24-34 Thorngate, is a former carpet manufacturing mill that has been converted into flats. It was built in 1846 for Joshua Monkhouse and Sons. The structure is made of coursed, roughly squared sandstone with pecked irregular quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with a roof of stone slates and featuring stone and brick chimneys.
The mill has three high storeys and a twelve-window range. The ground floor has 20th-century half-glazed doors in several bays, specifically in bays 2, 6, 7, 10, and 12, all with flat stone lintels. There are similar lintels and projecting stone sills for small plain sashes in the third and fourth bays. The first two bays feature mullioned-and-wide-transomed windows, while the remaining bays contain 4-pane sashes. The fifth bay has paired lights on the ground floor.
On the first floor, in the eighth bay, there is a blocked loading door with a window inserted. Additionally, there is a blocked high elliptical vehicle arch above the door and window of No. 26, with an inscribed stone plaque located above this at the second-floor level. The roof includes two end chimneys made of stone and three later intermediate chimneys made of brick. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
24-34, Thorngate receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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 — 10 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 8 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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