26, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House. 1 related planning application.

26, Old Elvet

WRENN ID
deep-cellar-dale
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
House
Address
26, Old Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3HY
OS grid reference
NZ 279 422
Coordinates
54.77443, -1.56737
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

26 Old Elvet is a house dating from the late 18th century. It is constructed of painted brick with a rendered plinth and has a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable coping and a kneeler. The building stands three storeys high and has one wide bay. On the right side, there is a four-panel door set within an architrave that includes a swell frieze and cornice. The windows are sash style: the ground floor has a late 19th-century single window, the first floor features a 20th-century wide tripartite window with glazing bars, and the top floor retains its original tripartite window with bars. There are three brick floor bands and a stepped and cogged eaves cornice, with coping at the left end. The chimney is concealed behind the ridge, and there is a blocked chute entry in the basement.

Local climate

26, Old Elvet 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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