Former United Bus Company Canteen is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1984. Canteen. 3 related planning applications.
Former United Bus Company Canteen
- WRENN ID
- tangled-lead-yarrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1984
- Type
- Canteen
- Address
- Former United Bus Company Canteen, Avenue House, North Road, City of Durham, DH1 4SG
- OS grid reference
- NZ 269 425
- Coordinates
- 54.77678, -1.58199
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former United Bus Company Canteen, built in 1842 by J.L. Pearson, is a two-storey structure located on North Road in Durham and Framwellgate. It features coursed squared sandstone with chamfered quoins, an ashlar plinth, and decorative stone dressings. The roof is made of Welsh slate and includes a rendered chimney. The building has three bays and a central entrance with renewed steps leading up to a six-panelled double door framed by a wide architrave. The windows are sashes with glazing bars, adorned with painted flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. The low-pitched hipped roof has a chimney on the front slope.
Local climate
Former United Bus Company Canteen 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2002
- Related listed building consents — 3 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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