1, Office Square is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House.

1, Office Square

WRENN ID
spare-gutter-tide
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Type
House
Address
1, Office Square, Staindrop
OS grid reference
NZ 128 205
Coordinates
54.58001, -1.80286
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This building, located at 1 Office Square, is a house dating from the mid-18th century, with some alterations made in the 19th century. It is constructed from sandstone rubble, featuring some quoins and ashlar dressings. The roof has been renewed with pantiles and includes three rows of stone slates at the eaves, along with stone gable copings and chimneys made from rubble and renewed brick.

The house is two storeys high and has three bays. There are three steps leading up to a four-panel door with an overlight. Above the door is a wide painted lintel, and to the left is a late 19th-century sash window. The second bay also contains similar sash windows, all of which have projecting stone sills. The lower window in the second bay features a shallow painted lintel, while the other bays are blank.

The steeply-pitched roof is adorned with cyma-recta-moulded kneelers and has chimneys at both ends. On the rear elevation, there is a blocked door in the third bay, which is covered by a soldier-course brick lintel. The other bays at the back have late 19th-century sash windows that are almost flush with the wall face.

Local climate

1, Office Square receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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