Witton House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1952. A C18 House. 3 related planning applications.

Witton House

WRENN ID
grim-floor-thistle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1952
Type
House
Address
Witton House, High Street, Witton-Le-Wear, DL14 0AZ
OS grid reference
NZ 146 312
Coordinates
54.67642, -1.77415
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Witton House is a house dating from the third quarter of the 18th century, with later 18th-century additions. The house is painted render with a stone plinth, and has a Welsh slate roof, rendered stacks, stone gable coping and wood gutter brackets. It is arranged in an L-shape. The house has two storeys and three windows to the front, with the two left windows set in a large bowed projection. A long canopy, supported by posts, extends over the front of the bow. The front door, a renewed six-panel design with sidelights, is centrally placed in the three bays to the right. Tripartite sash windows flank the door, and there are twelve-pane sashes above the door and in the other bays, with the windows in the bow curved under rendered stone lintels. Pineapple finials are at the gable feet of the roof, and there are chimneys at the ends and between the second and third bays. The right return side has a blocked doorway and one Yorkshire sliding sash window on each floor.

Inside, the house features six-panel doors, which are older in the right part of the house, and a panelled reveal between the second and third bays on the left. There are also two-panel doors to the rear and on the first floor, along with some original door catches. A left wall in the main bedroom is panelled, and there are some panelled cupboards on the first floor.

Local climate

Witton House receives an average of 880 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 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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  • Sale history — 2 transactions since 2004
  • Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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  • Flood risk assessment
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