The Surgery and Mounting Block is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. House.
The Surgery and Mounting Block
- WRENN ID
- buried-storey-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 June 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Surgery and Mounting Block, Market Place, Wolsingham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 075 372
- Coordinates
- 54.72995, -1.88367
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Surgery and mounting block is a house and mounting block dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth and dressings, while the right wing features incised stucco. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate; the main roof has stone gable coping and yellow brick chimneys with tall patent-flue pots, and the wing has a red brick chimney. The building is two storeys high with three bays, and there is a lower two-storey, one-bay right wing.
In the second bay, there is a six-panel door with a four-pane overlight set in a plain stone surround. The 16-pane sash windows have plain stone surrounds, and there is a later raised stone surround for a tripartite ground-floor window in the wider third bay, which includes some glazing bars. The right wing features a plain wide ground-floor window under a recessed wood lintel, with a plain sash window above it. The roofs have swept eaves and end chimneys, with the main building's chimney featuring right gable coping on a curved kneeler.
To the right of the door, there is a mounting block consisting of three stone steps.
Local climate
The Surgery and Mounting Block receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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