Elm House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1986. House. 1 related planning application.
Elm House
- WRENN ID
- idle-gateway-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Newton Aycliffe and Spennymoor MP: Alan Strickland (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1986
- Type
- House
- Address
- Elm House, 23, Front Street, Sedgefield, TS21 3AT
- OS grid reference
- NZ 357 288
- Coordinates
- 54.65375, -1.44779
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Elm House is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with some alterations. It is built of narrow red brick in English garden wall bond and has a renewed pantiled roof with brick chimneys. The front of the house is three stories high and has three bays. It features a central, replaced six-panel door with a four-pane overlight, set within a 20th-century fluted doorcase that has a bracketed hood. The windows are replaced sashes located under flat arches made of gauged brick, with twelve panes on the ground and first floors, and six panes above. The eaves cornice is made of wood and has a renewed dentilled design. The roof includes coped gable parapets, shaped kneelers, and two rebuilt end chimneys. The sides of the house have truncated external stacks. Inside, the modernised interior retains a four-flight, cut-string, dogleg staircase featuring turned balusters and a wreathed and ramped handrail. There are also 20th-century rear additions that are not of special interest.
Local climate
Elm House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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 — 1 transaction since 2019
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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