2 Barns (Durham Prison Officer's Club) is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1988. Barn.
2 Barns (Durham Prison Officer's Club)
- WRENN ID
- turning-outpost-oak
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1988
- Type
- Barn
- Address
- 2 Barns (Durham Prison Officer's Club), Hallgarth Street, City of Durham
- OS grid reference
- NZ 278 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77208, -1.56831
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
There are two barns that are part of the Durham Prison Officers' Club, originally part of Durham Priory farm, dating from the late medieval period. They are constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and have pantiled roofs, with the right barn featuring one row of Welsh slates at the eaves and stone gable copings.
The first barn on the left is a single storey with six bays and has a chamfered plinth. It includes modern openings for an inserted door and windows, and the wall tapers above the plinth. There is a corbelled-out eaves band. The second barn is also a single storey but has three bays, with paired inserted windows and a high chamfered plinth.
Inside the first barn, there are arch-braced, slightly-arched tie beams supported by jowled posts, along with queen-posts featuring struts and longitudinal bracing to the purlins. Some beams have been renewed in the fourth and fifth trusses, and certain struts have also been replaced. The upper part of the roof has been ceiled over. The interior of the second barn has similar trusses, some of which have been partly renewed.
Local climate
2 Barns (Durham Prison Officer's Club) 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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