44 and 45, North Bailey is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. University department. 3 related planning applications.

44 and 45, North Bailey

WRENN ID
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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
University department
Address
44 and 45, North Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3ET
OS grid reference
NZ 274 422
Coordinates
54.77462, -1.57473
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos. 44 and 45 North Bailey are two houses that now serve as a University department. They feature an early 19th-century front on a 17th-century house. The building is constructed from snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings, and while the roof is not visible, there are brick chimneys. The structure has three storeys and an attic, with five bays, the central bay being wider.

The central bay contains the entrance to No. 44 on the left, which features a boarded door and a two-pane overlight in a stone surround with a tongue-stopped chamfer. To the right, there is an eight-panel partly-glazed door set within a 17th-century stone doorcase that includes an architrave and a swan-neck open pediment supported by brackets, along with a cartouche. The sash windows, most of which have glazing bars, include some from the late 19th century and are topped with flat stone lintels and sloping projecting stone sills. The ground-floor windows were inserted into blocked shops and also have stone sills.

Inside No. 44, there is a dog-leg-closed-string staircase featuring a flat-topped moulded-edge handrail supported by widely spaced alternating turned and square balusters.

Local climate

44 and 45, North Bailey 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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