20, Front Street is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 April 1952. Public house, house. 1 related planning application.

20, Front Street

WRENN ID
silent-wicket-rook
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Constituency
Bishop Auckland MP: Dr Sam Rushworth (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 April 1952
Type
Public house, house
Address
20, Front Street, West Auckland, DL14 9HW
OS grid reference
NZ 181 263
Coordinates
54.63213, -1.72081
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

No. 20 Front Street is a former public house that has been converted into a private house. It dates from the late 18th century and was largely rebuilt in the mid-19th century. The building features painted render with a painted brick cornice and painted ashlar quoins, plinth, and dressings. It has a Welsh slate roof with brick chimneys and stands three storeys tall with two windows.

The entrance is located on the right side, within the structure of No. 20B. All the glazing has been renewed, and there is a painted plain surround to the half-glazed door. On the ground floor, there is a sill band beneath two wide windows, which are set in painted rendered surrounds. The upper floors have tall windows with projecting stone sills and flat stone lintels. The first-floor windows feature shallow segmental arches, while the second-floor windows have recessed flat pointed arches. The building also has rusticated quoins and a dog-tooth brick eaves cornice. The roof has end chimneys, with the right chimney adorned with a dog-tooth cornice. The left return of the building is rendered. This property is included for its group value.

Local climate

20, 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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