23 and 24, Old Elvet is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. Houses. 2 related planning applications.
23 and 24, Old Elvet
- WRENN ID
- gentle-merlon-gilt
- 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
- Houses
- Address
- 23 and 24, Old Elvet, City of Durham, DH1 3HY
- OS grid reference
- NZ 279 422
- Coordinates
- 54.77431, -1.56691
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
23 and 24 Old Elvet are mid-19th century houses that have been restored. They are built from mottled reddish brick in English garden wall bond, with a sandstone plinth (rendered on No. 24), and feature alternating raised quoins and dressings. The buildings are two storeys high with a basement, comprising three bays for No. 23 and five bays for No. 24, with No. 23 set back. There are steps leading up to 8-panel doors, which have arcaded heads and patterned elliptical fanlights, set in panelled wood reveals and doorcases with decorative paterae; the door is left-aligned in No. 23 and central in No. 24. The sash windows, some of which have been renewed, feature wedge stone lintels and stone sills. There are small louvred or barred basement openings and an inserted door to the left of No. 24. The houses have a stone modillioned eaves cornice and low-pitched hipped roofs with low off-ridge chimneys.
Local climate
23 and 24, Old Elvet 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 — 2 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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