Durham House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. House. 4 related planning applications.
Durham House
- WRENN ID
- noble-minaret-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House
- Address
- Durham House, 14, High Row, Gainford, DL2 3DN
- OS grid reference
- NZ 168 168
- Coordinates
- 54.54698, -1.74055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Durham House is a late 18th-century house located on the north side of High Row in Gainford. The building features roughcast and painted masonry with a graduated green slate roof and ashlar stacks. It is two stories high with a three-bay front that includes a low plinth and raised, chamfered quoins on the right side.
On the ground floor, there is a continuous sill band and a central doorcase with a fluted frieze and angle paterae, which contains a 20th-century door set within a shouldered architrave. Flanking this door are renewed two-pane sash windows in raised surrounds. The first floor also has renewed two-pane sash windows, with the central window set in an eared architrave and the flanking windows in raised surrounds.
The moderately-pitched roof features coped gables with shaped kneelers and two corniced gable stacks. At the rear of the house, there is a 12-pane staircase window with an intersecting-tracery head.
Local climate
Durham House receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
- Related listed building consents — 4 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings