The Morritt Arms Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 January 1967. Hotel. 6 related planning applications.
The Morritt Arms Hotel
- WRENN ID
- scarred-groin-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 January 1967
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Morritt Arms Hotel, Brignall, DL12 9SE
- OS grid reference
- NZ 085 132
- Coordinates
- 54.51482, -1.87019
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Morritt Arms Hotel is a hotel that likely dates from the 18th century and was enlarged and remodeled in the early 20th century. It is constructed from squared stone with cut quoins and dressings, featuring an ashlar porch. The main block has a concrete tile roof, while the east wing has stone slates. The main block is three storeys high with seven symmetrical bays. It has a central prostyle porch supported by paired Tuscan columns, leading to a six-panel door. The lower floors have 12-pane sash windows, and the upper floors have 9-pane sashes. The building has coped gables on moulded kneelers and end stacks.
To the left, slightly set back, is a two-storey l-bay end of the east wing, which has 12-pane sashes. The left return of the wing has four bays, featuring a glazed door with a plain overlight and similar sash windows, topped with a hip-ended roof. At the rear of the wing, there is a bow window with a moulded cornice. All openings are framed with architraves, many of which incorporate re-used 18th-century materials.
Inside, the hotel features largely early 20th-century elements, including an open-well stair with stick balusters, panelled newels, and a moulded handrail, as well as Tudor-style fireplaces. A flat-roofed ballroom extension from the 1930s at the rear of the main block and attached outbuildings to the southwest are not of interest.
Local climate
The Morritt Arms Hotel 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2016
- Related listed building consents — 6 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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