2 and 3, The Square is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. House. 1 related planning application.

2 and 3, The Square

WRENN ID
late-lantern-dawn
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 January 1967
Type
House
Address
2 and 3, The Square, Romaldkirk
OS grid reference
NY 994 220
Coordinates
54.59405, -2.00983
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 2 and 3 The Square is a house, originally two dwellings, likely built in the early 17th century, with a fireplace dated 1626. It has undergone significant alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed from sandstone rubble and features graduated green slate roofs along with stone and brick chimneys. It is centrally located within a short row of buildings.

The house is two storeys high and has four bays with flush quoins. The 19th-century openings include replaced glazed doors in flush, tooled surrounds at the end bays, and replaced 12-pane casements in similar surrounds between. Above, there are two identical windows and blank end bays. The roof has a replaced coping on the right side. There are three ridge stacks; the central and left stacks are made of stone and have top bands and water tables, while the right stack is a rebuilt brick structure.

Inside, there is a partly-blocked Tudor-arched fireplace with chamfered inner arrises and a lintel dated 1626. There are late 20th-century rear additions that are not of special interest.

Local climate

2 and 3, The Square 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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