Training Office is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. House.

Training Office

WRENN ID
vast-window-torch
Grade
II
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
Training Office, 21, Old Elvet, City of Durham
OS grid reference
NZ 279 422
Coordinates
54.7741, -1.56744
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Training Office is an early 19th-century house located in Durham and Framwellgate Old Elvet. It is constructed of pinkish brick in English garden wall bond, with a rendered plinth and a Welsh slate roof featuring rendered stacks. The building stands three storeys high and has two slightly irregular bays.

The entrance is off-centre, featuring a six-panel door set within an architrave that includes a reeded frieze, a bracketed cornice, and a pediment. The windows are adorned with wedge stucco lintels and have projecting stone sills; the first-floor right window is tripartite with glazing bars. There are chimneys at both ends of the building.

The forecourt is enclosed by plain wrought iron railings that have trellis piers topped with palmette finials, and there is a central gate along with a lampholder at the left end.

Local climate

Training Office 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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