St Cuthbert's Society is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 May 1952. A Early Modern College. 7 related planning applications.

St Cuthbert's Society

WRENN ID
sharp-fireplace-bittern
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
College
Period
Early Modern
Address
St Cuthbert's Society, 12, South Bailey, City of Durham, DH1 3EE
OS grid reference
NZ 272 418
Coordinates
54.77079, -1.5772
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St Cuthbert's Society is a building that combines two houses, now functioning as a college. The right house dates from the 17th century, while the left house is from the early 19th century. The exterior features painted render with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof, complete with rendered chimneys and stone gable copings. The building stands three storeys tall, with the right house displaying six irregular bays. It has a five-panel door set in a deep reveal, framed by a shouldered architrave within a circa 1900 doorcase that features a large bracketed shell hood supported by Ionic pilasters. The tympanum displays the initials I W I. The ground floor has five sash windows with glazing bars and stone cills, along with a similar sash above and a two-light casement, plus a small sash under the eaves. The roof is steeply pitched, with flat kneelers and end chimneys, and the rear elevation has three gables, with the outer gables made of ashlar.

The left house features a six-panel door on the right side and three renewed ground-floor sash windows with glazing bars, along with late 19th-century sashes above. Inside, there is a massive full-height open-well staircase with a closed string, twist balusters, a wide handrail, and square newels topped with renewed ball finials. The ground floor also includes two-panelled hall doors set in bolection architraves, one adorned with terms carrying sheaves of corn and the other with lion masks.

Local climate

St Cuthbert's Society 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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