The Old Well is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1973. Public house. 1 related planning application.
The Old Well
- WRENN ID
- twisted-buttress-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1973
- Type
- Public house
- Address
- The Old Well, 21, the Bank, Barnard Castle
- OS grid reference
- NZ 050 162
- Coordinates
- 54.54156, -1.92421
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Well is a house that has been converted into a public house. It dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone some alterations in the 20th century. The building is constructed of coursed squared stone with painted ashlar quoins and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof that features stone gable copings and both ashlar and brick chimneys.
It stands three storeys high and has a four-window range. The entrance, located in the third bay, features a six-panel door with an overlight that has patterned glazing bars, a plain stone surround, and a hood supported by shallow dentils. To the left of the door is a wide, late 20th-century shallow bow window with a plain surround and new masonry beneath it. To the right of the door, there is a sash window with glazing bars set within an architrave, with similar sash windows on the first floor and smaller four-pane sashes in similar surrounds on the second floor. The top windows project from the architrave of the top entablature.
The building also has a cyma-moulded eaves gutter cornice and projecting quoins. The roof features end gable copings that rest on cyma-moulded kneelers, and the end chimneys have been renewed, with the left chimney sitting on an ashlar plinth. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Old Well receives an average of 950 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 54 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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