32, Front Street is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 May 1994. House.

32, Front Street

WRENN ID
drifting-obsidian-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 May 1994
Type
House
Address
32, Front Street, West Auckland
OS grid reference
NZ 181 263
Coordinates
54.63215, -1.71976
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

32 Front Street is a house that was originally built in the mid-18th century and later adapted into a shop and house, with further alterations in the 20th century. The exterior features roughcast render that is partly damaged, exposing thin coursed rubble, along with painted ashlar dressings. The roof is covered with concrete tiles and has stone gable coping and brick chimneys.

The building has three storeys and three windows. The central entrance has renewed doors with plain overlights, framed in painted plain surrounds. A prominent hood supported by moulded stone brackets covers the central door. To the left, there is a door in the shop front, which has a bracketed cornice on plain pilasters leading to the door and a wide window, with a common central pilaster and a rendered stall riser. A renewed shop sash window with vertical glazing bars is also located to the left. The other windows are late 20th-century pivoting lights set in painted stone architraves, with the second-floor windows being smaller. The roof features swept eaves and narrow stone gable coping on the right, supported by a small moulded kneeler. The right end chimney has been truncated, while the left chimney is shared with No. 31.

Local climate

32, Front Street receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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