27 and 28, Low Green is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.

27 and 28, Low Green

WRENN ID
last-quartz-thyme
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
27 and 28, Low Green, Gainford, DL2 3DS
OS grid reference
NZ 170 167
Coordinates
54.54536, -1.73857
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: sale history · EPC · related consents · flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

This is a former vicarage, now divided into two dwellings. It dates to the early 18th century, with alterations and additions made in 1864. The building is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble, with a dressed sandstone right return and rear elevation. The main block has a Welsh slate roof, while the wing attached to the left has a sandstone flag roof. Brick and stone stacks are present.

The main block is three storeys high and five bays wide, with the right bay, return and rear rebuilt in 1864. Roughly-dressed quoins appear on the left side, while the right side has tooled and margined quoins. A renewed six-panel door is centrally positioned, set within a chamfered rusticated surround. Flanking this door are four-pane sashes with raised surrounds and projecting sills. Identical sashes are present on the first floor, and smaller four-pane sashes are found on the second floor, all in similar surrounds. The low-pitched roof has coped gables with shaped kneelers, two stepped and corniced stone gable stacks, and a similar ridge stack.

A two-storey, three-bay wing is attached to the left. A 20th-century addition partially obscures the ground floor. The first floor of this wing features four-pane sashes in raised surrounds. It has a low-pitched, hipped roof and a brick ridge stack. The right return of the building mirrors the front in its fenestration and features a door lintel dated 1864. The two-storey, three-bay rear elevation has a central French window and flanking tripartite windows. The first floor has a pair of sixteen-pane sashes flanked by single sixteen-pane sashes.

Local climate

27 and 28, Low Green receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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  • Sale history — 3 transactions since 2018
  • Related listed building consents — 4 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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