County Library Branch is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1987. Library.

County Library Branch

WRENN ID
open-marble-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1987
Type
Library
Address
County Library Branch, Front Street, Stanhope
OS grid reference
NY 997 390
Coordinates
54.74655, -2.0051
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The County Library branch, built around 1890, incorporates part of an early 19th-century rectory outbuilding. The building features thin courses of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and has a roof made of plain tiles with stone gable copings, while the outbuilding has a stone-flagged roof. Designed in the Tudor revival style, the library is a single storey with one bay facing the street and a right return. The street elevation includes a central window with three stone-mullioned elliptical-headed lights beneath a label mould. The gable coping rests on flat kneelers, and the roof extends beyond the coping on the right return, which also has a corniced ashlar rear ridge chimney. The right return features a shallow canted bay window with three lights, matching the style of the street front, and a small square window to the right in a stone surround. The attached outbuilding has an elliptical-headed moulded stone doorway with a boarded door.

Local climate

County Library Branch sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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