17, Front Street is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House. 3 related planning applications.
17, Front Street
- WRENN ID
- quartered-tin-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- 17, Front Street, West Auckland, DL14 9HW
- OS grid reference
- NZ 180 263
- Coordinates
- 54.63214, -1.72134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a late 18th-century house on Front Street, West Auckland. The exterior is painted rough render with painted ashlar dressings, and it has a Welsh slate roof with a brick chimney. The house is three storeys high, featuring two windows on each principal floor. A 20th-century door is located on the left side, with a small overlight and flat stone lintel. A large window is positioned to the left, with a painted stone sill and lintel. The first floor has two windows, the one on the right being slightly smaller, and both have painted stone sills. A single window is present on the second floor. The roof is low-pitched with a renewed chimney on the left side, and a raised gable and chimney on the right. The building is included in the list for its group value.
Local climate
17, Front Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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