The Kirk Inn is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 June 1986. Pub. 1 related planning application.
The Kirk Inn
- WRENN ID
- eastward-garret-ochre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 17 June 1986
- Type
- Pub
- Address
- The Kirk Inn, Middle Green, Romaldkirk, DL12 9ED
- OS grid reference
- NY 995 220
- Coordinates
- 54.59379, -2.00876
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Kirk Inn is a public house located in Romaldkirk, dating from the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed from squared sandstone and features both stone-flagged and stone-tiled roofs, along with stone chimney stacks. The building has an L-plan layout, with the main block and a wing attached to the rear of the right side.
The main block is two stories high and has three bays, characterized by raised-and-chamfered quoins. The central and right bays have a 20th-century stone window bay, while the left bay features a replaced two-pane sash window in a moulded surround, with identical sashes above in projecting surrounds. The roof is steeply pitched and covered with flags, featuring coped gables and shaped kneelers. There are end stacks with top bands and water tables, and a 19th-century canted bay window is present on the right return. Access to the inn is through a two-story porch that is attached to the rear of the right return.
The rear wing is long and low, also two stories tall, and has two replaced sash windows. It has a low-pitched stone-tiled roof with a coped gable on the right side, along with right end and tall ridge stacks. There are brick additions to the rear wing, but these are not considered of special interest.
Local climate
The Kirk Inn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 36 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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