The Former Rectory is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 August 1975. Rectory, private house. 1 related planning application.
The Former Rectory
- WRENN ID
- lunar-zinc-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Constituency
- Blaydon and Consett MP: Liz Twist (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 August 1975
- Type
- Rectory, private house
- Address
- The Former Rectory, Front Street, DH8 0PJ
- OS grid reference
- NZ 103 554
- Coordinates
- 54.89357, -1.84055
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Rectory is a private house that was originally built as a rectory in the mid to late 18th century. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with large quoins and ashlar dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings and chimneys made of ashlar and yellow brick. The building has an L-plan layout consisting of three sections: the first is two storeys high with two bays, the second adds a third bay, and the third is a right wing that projects forward, consisting of two lower storeys and three bays.
The main front of the two-storey, three-bay section features a central one-storey gabled porch that contains a renewed door and windows on the sides. The outer bays have renewed 16-pane sash windows, with the right bay being wider, and there is a tall 18-pane stair window above the porch, all having flat stone lintels and projecting stone sills. To the right of the porch, there is a small fixed light window with a similar design. The wing has a front gable with boarded vehicle doors beneath a stone lintel and a 20th-century window above, also with a stone lintel and sill. The left return of the wing showcases various windows, including a three-light horizontal sliding sash on the ground floor and a wide 16-pane sash above. Most windows are fitted with panelled window shutters. The stair features a ramped handrail supported by stick balusters. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
The Former Rectory 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 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 45 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2021
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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