8, The College is a Grade I listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. A Medieval House. 3 related planning applications.
8, The College
- WRENN ID
- last-ledge-bittern
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- City of Durham MP: Mary Kelly Foy (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 May 1952
- Type
- House
- Address
- 8, The College, City of Durham, DH1 3EQ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 272 419
- Coordinates
- 54.77199, -1.57718
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 8 The College is a Grade I listed building in Durham, originally of unknown use and now functioning as a house. It dates back to the medieval period and has undergone alterations. The structure is built from sandstone, featuring a mix of coursed and squared stone as well as some rubble, with ashlar dressings. The roof is stone-flagged and has brick chimneys. The building has two storeys and attics, comprising four wide bays. The entrance is located in the adjacent gable of No. 7 to the left. On the right side, there are three wide double-chamfered, two-centred arches supported by two round columns and an octagonal corbel. The left bay features two superimposed relieving arches. A renewed boarded door on the left has an overlight and a flat stone lintel. The arches are filled with snecked masonry and have renewed windows. At the rear, there is a horizontal sliding sash window with wide glazing bars on the ground floor. Inside, the building features stop-chamfered arched tie-beams with end and central peg-holes, and the area immediately above is ceiled.
Local climate
8, The College 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
- No sale records on file
- 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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