195, Gilesgate is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1971. House. 1 related planning application.
195, Gilesgate
- WRENN ID
- lost-ember-bone
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1971
- Type
- House
- Address
- 195, Gilesgate, City of Durham, DH1 1QN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 279 427
- Coordinates
- 54.77851, -1.56682
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a house dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of painted English garden wall bond brick, with painted ashlar dressings, and has a Welsh slate roof with a brick chimney. The house is three storeys high and has two bays. The left side features a six-panelled door set within a wide architrave. A single sash window is on the right, with two sashes on each of the upper floors. The ground and first floor sashes have glazing bars, all set in wide boxes. Header course lintels are above the first floor windows, and projecting stone sills are present on the ground and first floors. Dentilled bands run along the first and second floors. The steeply-pitched roof has one chimney at one end.
Local climate
195, Gilesgate 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2013
- 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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