20, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. House.
20, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- south-wattle-woodpecker
- 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
- 20, Old Elvet, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 279 422
- Coordinates
- 54.7741, -1.56758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Old Elvet is a house dating from the early 19th century. It is constructed of mottled reddish brick with a stone basement and stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and features brick chimneys. The building has three storeys and a basement, with three windows across the front.
The basement has a rusticated plinth and a band at the ground floor level. There is a boarded basement door and barred sash windows. To the left, five steps with wrought iron handrails lead up to a door made of six reeded panels, which is topped by a patterned radial fanlight in a similar panelled reveal and reeded surround with decorative paterae. The sash windows have glazing bars, with the top floor windows being shorter and set under stone lintels that are cut as voussoirs. The building has chimneys at both ends. Plain wrought-iron area railings feature latticed piers with palmette finials.
Local climate
20, 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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